Critical Disability Theory

Question 1

Social propaganda that stands against oppression

Answer 1

Marxism

Question 2

Both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms

Answer 2

Feminism

Question 3

An academic and political theory that analyses and challenges traditional ideas about disability and ‘normal’ bodies.

Answer 3

Critical Disability Theory

Question 4

Refers to a personal bodily reality that affects the way that someone lives and interacts with the world around them, such as chronic pain, or a broken leg

Answer 4

Impairment

Question 5

Refers to the social barriers that affects the way that someone with impairments live and interact world around them

Answer 5

Disability

Question 6

Looks at questions of disability and access from a social point of view. It critiques the medical model of disability and put forwards that a person is more disabled by social barriers than their body

Answer 6

Social model of disability

Question 7

Argues that people are disabled by their individual impairments

Answer 7

Medical model of disability