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Essay On Disabled Bodies

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Americans sociologically have a way of labeling people and putting them into exclusive groups. This categorically labelling leaves the deviant groups to be the exception to the rules of the majority. Human bodies at least in American culture are sometimes labelled into two categories: Male and Female. Yet many bodies do not fit into these categorical expectations of a gender binary, because gender is fluid and bodies are diverse. Therefore, in American culture anything that diverts from this norm is deviant. In this case sometimes in american society even the female body diverts from this normalcy. Bodies are diverse and many cannot fit into the structure of normalcy. Although for the most part bodies are assumed as normal in the binary, in some circumstances …show more content…

Disabled bodies are not only physical but also mental. These two types of disability emerge a large controversy in the disabled community: the problem of invisibility and how visibility affects validity. An individual with a mental disability is not respected in the same way that someone with a visual disability is treated. A physical disability is proven visually whereas a mental disability cannot. So people assume that mental disabilities are not as valid as physical disabilities. Disabled bodies is one example of deviant bodies. Disabled bodies are excluded from the media and sociological american norm. The exclusion of the disabled body and individuals is an obvious example of the pressure and harassment attached to being disabled. Howard explains that the intersectionality of disability is crucial to the privilege of sex associated in the disabled community. Howard ellaberates to explain how disabled women are not supported by their husbands whereas, disabled men tend to be fully supported by their wives. This intersectionality in this group causes much of the issues that disabled bodies

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