The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain

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ID5845554
AuthorsMargaret Price (0000-0001-9117-824X, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume30
Issue1
Pages268-284
Publication date2014-11-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/hypa.12127
OpenAlexW2050580515
LanguageEN
Citations received221
References cited29

What is a crip politics of bodymind? Drawing upon Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's theory of the misfit, I explain my understanding of crip and bodymind within a feminist materialist framework, and argue that careful investigation of a crip politics of bodymind must involve accounting for two key, but under-explored, disability studies (DS) concepts: desire and pain. I trace the turn toward desire that has characterized DS theory for the last decade, and argue that while acknowledging disability desire, we must also attend to the aspects of disability, including pain, that are sometimes bad. Although I don't argue that pain is always and only bad, I call for recognition of the ways pain complicates disability desire, as well as the possibilities it opens for specifically located, collective forms of care

Disability studies · Materialism · Disability Rights and Representation · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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