Care, Disability, and Violence: Theorizing Complex Dependency in Eva Kittay and Judith Butler

Hypatia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy Clifford Simplican
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Self ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Complex Dependency ◽  
Planning Approaches ◽  
Embodied Care

How do we theorize the experiences of caregivers abused by their children with autism without intensifying stigma toward disability? Eva Kittay emphasizes examples of extreme vulnerability to overturn myths of independence, but she ignores the possibility that dependents with disabilities may be vulnerable and aggressive. Instead, her work over‐emphasizes caregivers' capabilities and the constancy of disabled dependents' vulnerability. I turn to Judith Butler's ethics and her conception of the self as opaque to rethink care amid conflict. Person‐centered planning approaches, pioneered by disability rights activists, merge Butler's analysis of opacity with Kittay's work on embodied care, while also inviting a broader network of people to both interpret needs and change communities. By expanding our conceptions of dependency, feminist disability studies can continue the aim of both Kittay and Butler: to humanize unintelligible lives.

scholarly journals Developing iPad Application based on Video Modeling to Enhance Self-Protection Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Jeddah

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afnan Maatouk Al - Talhi
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Video Modeling ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
Experimental Group

The current study aimed to develop a mobile application based on video modeling to improve and enhance self-protection skills for children with autism. Semi-experimental design of the two groups was adopted: the control, which received the self-protection skills in the traditional way, while these skills was provided to the experimental group through the application based on video modeling. The research sample was consisted of 16 students who met the criteria. The researcher was applied the self-protection skills scale on the sample. After the experiment was applied for five weeks, the data were analyzed statistically. The results showed the effectiveness of the application in the development of self-protection skills for autistic children. The researcher recommended the use of the preferences of children with autism and the use of applications that based on video modeling in their education.

Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies

Signs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-55
Author(s):  
Sami Schalk ◽  
Jina B. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies

A Wojtyłian Reading of Performativity and the Self in Judith Butler

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Franks
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Power Of God

Abstract Drawing on Hegel, Judith Butler argues that the subject is the product of its desire for subject-ion. The subject, its gender, and even the sexed body itself come into being through reiterating or parodying preexisting norms and discourses of power (“performativity”). Butler rejects the realities of substance and a fixed human nature that would limit the possibilities of performativity. I summarize and assess Butler’s proposals, highlighting both the value and the drawbacks of her theory. I then show how John Paul II’s understanding of meaning and of the body as tasks takes up what is positive in Butler. He escapes the pitfalls of her thought, however, by retaining both metaphysics and revelation. He argues that the subject exists as substance or suppositum, which defends it against the encroachment of power. He also insists on the importance of human nature, which makes the human person to be the kind of substance who can form herself through the God-given task of creative action directed toward meaningful self-gift. Lastly, John Paul II emphasizes that the divine power of God enables the person to transcend the power dynamics of the culture of death.

The Pain of Endo Existence: Toward a Feminist Disability Studies Reading of Endometriosis

Hypatia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 554-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Medical Models ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
Provide Pain Relief ◽  
The Common ◽  
Constructionist Approach

Disability scholars have critiqued medical models that pathologize disability as an individual flaw that needs treatment, rehabilitation, and cure, favoring instead a social‐constructionist approach that likens disability to other identity categories such as gender, race, class, and sexuality. However, the emphasis on social constructionism has left chronic illness and pain largely untheorized. This article argues that feminist disability studies (FDS) must attend to the common, chronic gynecological condition endometriosis (endo) when theorizing pain. Endo is particularly important for FDS analysis because the highly feminized and sexualized nature of endo pain is a major source of disability. Because medical treatments of endo enhance fertility rather than provide pain relief, those with endo must not only have access to medical services to manage their pain, but also demand better medical management of their pain as well as disability accommodations for their pain. Thus, I propose a pain‐centric model of disability that politicizes pain through social‐constructionist and medical models of disability by attending to the lived experiences of pain.

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