TY - JOUR

T1 - Different bodies

T2 - Normality and embodiments of disability and gender

AU - Ganterer, Julia

AU - More, Rahel

PY - 2019/3

Y1 - 2019/3

N2 - This article is devoted to the challenge of human diversity being perceived as difference, eventually resulting in othering and social oppression. We introduce Luan, a young disabled woman, and her gendered disabling experience in terms of embodiment, which we argue is a form of socially situated knowledge. Our intention is to shed light on a society-critical approach to gender and disability in order to counter recent developments in educational studies towards individualisation and away from socialisation as a central pedagogical moment. Luan's experience is presented in a phenomenological reading to gain an understanding of embodiments of normality and difference and to simultaneously question how far they emerge from external oppression and/or internalised desires of conforming to social norms. We conclude that for a critical and empowering pedagogy of gender and disability, both individual and societal factors have to be taken into consideration, and we accordingly introduce pedagogical perspectives of empowerment.

AB - This article is devoted to the challenge of human diversity being perceived as difference, eventually resulting in othering and social oppression. We introduce Luan, a young disabled woman, and her gendered disabling experience in terms of embodiment, which we argue is a form of socially situated knowledge. Our intention is to shed light on a society-critical approach to gender and disability in order to counter recent developments in educational studies towards individualisation and away from socialisation as a central pedagogical moment. Luan's experience is presented in a phenomenological reading to gain an understanding of embodiments of normality and difference and to simultaneously question how far they emerge from external oppression and/or internalised desires of conforming to social norms. We conclude that for a critical and empowering pedagogy of gender and disability, both individual and societal factors have to be taken into consideration, and we accordingly introduce pedagogical perspectives of empowerment.

KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics

KW - embodiment

KW - disability

KW - phenomenology

KW - gender

KW - pedagogy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073114371&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 70

SP - 160

EP - 173

JO - Sodobna Pedagogika

JF - Sodobna Pedagogika

SN - 0038-0474

IS - 1

ER -