Citation

Nicki A. Hypatia 2001; 16(4): 80-104.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb00754.x

PMID

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Abstract

I show how much psychiatric disability is informed by trauma, marginalization, sexist norms, social inequalities, concepts of irrationality and normalcy, oppositional mind-body dualism, and mainstream moral values. Drawing on feminist discussion of physical disability, I present a feminist theory of psychiatric disability that serves to liberate not only those who are psychiatrically disabled but also the mind and moral consciousness restricted in their ranges of rational possibilities.