Disability Terminology
What is the term for a social movement that advocates for the rights and dignity of disabled individuals?
Disability Rights Movement
Who coined the term "Crip Theory" to explore the intersection between queerness and disability?
Robert McRuer
This framework examines how race interacts with disability to impact the experiences of marginalized groups.
Dis/ability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit)
This field of study critiques the medical model of madness by emphasizing the lived experiences of individuals labeled as "mad" and advocating for their rights and representation.
Mad Studies
This term refers to the societal attitudes that deem disabled individuals as inferior or less capable than non-disabled individuals.
Ableism
This critical scholar emphasized the need for intersectionality within disability studies.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
This theory refers to a framework that acknowledges multiple identities and how they intersect.
Intersectionality
This movement critiques the male-dominated medical establishment and emphasizes the importance of women’s experiences in healthcare, contributing to a shift in knowledge production.
Women's Health Movement
What phrase emphasizes that individuals with disabilities should have a voice in decision-making processes that affect their lives?
"Nothing about us without us"
This scholar's work highlights how colonialism affects the understanding of disability in Indigenous populations.
Pearl Yellow Old Woman
This theory merges queer theory and critical disability studies. It explores how the social norms around ability intersect with the social norms around gender/sexuality.
Crip Theory
This term refers to the systematic ways in which knowledge is suppressed or ignored, particularly in contexts where marginalized voices are excluded from the discourse on health and well-being.
Epistemologies of Ignorance
What is the term for an idea that has been created and accepted by society, often influencing the perception of disability and normality?
Social construct
This disability theorist emphasized the social model of disability and the need for societal change (viewed disability as a failure of society to adapt to the needs of disabled people).
Mike Oliver
This theorist argued that society is divided into classes based on their means of production, leading to exploitation and class struggle.
Karl Marx
This term is defined as the 'sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity’
Double Consciousness
What is the term for a model that views disability as a deficiency or impairment that requires diagnosis, treatment, and management?
Medical Model of Disability
Which theorist described structural oppression as involving ‘the disadvantage and injustice some people suffer not because a tyrannical power coerces them, but because of the everyday practices of a well-intentioned liberal society’?
Iris Marion Young
This model focuses on societal norms and values and how they construct understandings of disability. It suggests that disability is not an inherent trait but rather a label applied by society.
Social model of disability
This term describes the structural conditions and social factors that create vulnerabilities and inequities in health outcomes among different populations.
Social Determinants of Health