Citations:ablenormativity
English citations of ablenormativity and able-normativity
Noun: "the assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people"
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- 2009, Kevin McDonough, "The 'Futures' of Queer Children and the Common School Ideal", in The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal: A Defence by Richard Pring with Complementary Essays (eds. Graham Haydon & Mark Halstead), page 296:
- To illustrate: one example of the way in which ablenormativity exerts a withering pressure on the 'imagined possible futures' of disabled children lies in what Hans Reinders calls 'the presumption of suffering' of the disabled and those who care for them (Reinders, 2000, ch. 10).
- 2016, Lydia Brown, "'You don't feel like a freak anymore': Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary", in Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays (eds. Adrienne Trier-Bieniek & April Kalogeropoulos Householder), page 185:
- Ablenormativity requires performing abledness and neurotypicality—apparent disability cannot be tolerated.
- 2017, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in "Intersectionality: A dialogue with Devonya N. Havis and Lydia X. Z. Brown", in Jennifer Seuro, Jennifer Seuro, Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Questions Via Disability Studies, page 48:
- The term disableism actually moves toward individualizing disability again, and locating the problem of disability in the disabled body rather than the narrative of compulsory ablenormativity.
- 2018, Sara Beth Brooks & Tyler Snelling, "Jimmy's Resistance, or Killing the Joy of Cruel Optimism in South Park, in The Image of Disability: Essays on Media Representations (ed. Amber E. George & J. L. Schatz), page 64:
- Disability scholars extended Berlant's work on "cruel optimism" to suggest how images of the good life reify ablenormativity […]
- 2019, Wendy S. Hesford & Rachel A. Lewis, "Queering Human Rights: The Transgender Child", in The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature (ed. Crystal Parikh), page 115:
- While able-normativity casts those with disabilities as without a future and queer subjects as unreproductive obstacles to heteronormative futures, the space for agency that neoliberal discourses allow for the transgender child, namely those who aspire to transnormative recognition, exceeds that of the disabled child, especially the child for whom a curative future is nor imagined or possible.
- 2020, Jess Whatcott, "Sexuality, Disability and Madness in California's Eugenics Era", in The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality (ed. Linda Mona & Russell Shuttleworth), unnumbered page:
- The unintended consequence of this strategy to gain political legitimacy, argues Kunzel, is that it distanced queerness from disability in ways that reinforced both heteronormativity and able-normativity.
- 2020, Amit Upadhyay, "Corporeality, Mobility and Class: An Ethnography of Work-related Experiences in Urban India", in Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities (eds. Renu Addlakha), unnumbered page:
- Disability rights are presently competing for space alongside various other social issues in civil society in India. As an evolving interest group in challenging able-normativity, it is now firmly entrenched within the human rights discourse, both in the academy and in civil society.
- 2020, James S. Williams, "Queering the migrant: Being beyond borders", in Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema (ed. James S. Williams), unnumbered page:
- As Lewis writes, recent queer migration scholarship has show not only how nation-states seek to incorporate queer migrants as a measure of of their exceptionalism within neoliberal narratives of modernity, but also how homonationalism (re)produces the norms of sexual citizenship grounded in heteronormative reproductive futurism and able-normativity (Lewis 2019a: 654).
- 2021, Svetlana Borodina, "Unfixing Blindness: Retinal Implants and Negotiations of Ability in Postsocialist Russia", in Remaking the Human Cosmetic: Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement (eds. Alvaro Jarrín & Chiara Pussetti), page 215:
- Regardless of one's disability status, stakeholders and protagonists of the publicized story of the retinal implantation surgeries in Russia reproduced the “the value system of ablenormativity which privileges the supposedly neurotypical and ablebodied” (Lydia X. Z. Brown's definition of ableism, in Scuro 2018: 48) at the expense of disabled individuals.
- 2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, page 11:
- Ablenormativity, and ableism more broadly, are racialized in multiple ways.
- 2022, Brandon Fletcher & Alvin J. Primack, quoted in Katherine E. Sugg, Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture: Allegories of White Masculinity in Crisis, page 210:
- The film's postapocalypse seems to reject the able-normativity that McRuer describes and constructs a world that embraces the differences in disabled bodies without the stigmatization typically inscribed upon the disabled