摘要：One of the most exciting concepts in disability studies today is the broadnotion of disability gain: how, it asks, can we understand disability as agenerative force, one that catalyzes creativity and imagination?Disability gain manifests across many different areas of disability studies such as,feminist disability studies. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Kim Q. Hall haveargued for feminist disability studies’ invigorating effects on knowledge:Garland-Thomson contends that “[i]ntegrating disability into feminist theory isgenerative, broadening our collective inquiries, questioning our assumptions,and contributing to feminism’s intersectionality.”1 Hall similarly emphasizesthat feminist disability studies “enables a reimagining of disability and gender inways that contribute further insight into the injustice against both.”2 This ispossible, Hall posits, because “[w]ithin feminist disability studies, exploringconceptual and lived connections between gender and disability helps to makevisible the historical and ongoing interrelationship between all forms ofoppression.”3 Feminist disability studies thus looks critically at how definitionsof disability and gender have intersected in ways that have been insidious, butalso uses that interrogation to query—and generate new ideas about—what wethink of as “natural” forms of gender, embodiment, and sexuality.
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