Explaining & Evaluating Susan Wendell’s Feminist Approach to Disability

In the vast majority of societies, healthy patriarchal ideology has monopolized healthy people, culture, economics, politics, art, and everything else, and the disabled have been referred to as “other” and “second sex” in most societies, such as women in patriarchal societies Sending people with disabilities to medical centers, rehabilitation centers and hospitals, which is like a prison, screening tests and abortions and killing them, etc., are all based on the ideology that we (healthy people) are the principle and they are nothing; they must either become like us or leave the scene of life. But in the period of late and postmodern modernity, we are witnessing the formation of disability studies and the shift from a “therapeutic model” to a “social model”. In this model, disability is preceded by genetic and biological disorders Is the product of the “disabling social, political, cultural and economic structures” of societies. In this model, the health of mind and body is no longer considered a “privilege” and a sign of “selfhood” and disability is known as different physical and mental styles and various experiences of human presence in the world. One of the people who has dealt with disability from a feminist point of view and from a philosophical point of view, It is Mrs. Susan Wendell who is also disabled. In the face of discriminatory views of women and the disabled, he put forward the idea of ​​”transcendence of the body” as opposed to the ideal body and materialism. In this research, which is mostly based on the book Rejected Body and three articles by Ms. Wendell, first in the first chapter, generalities and related concepts are expressed, and then the views and patterns in disability are expressed. In the second chapter, Wendell’s feminist views on disability are explained under the heading of their critiques, attitudes, teachings, and considerations. The third chapter evaluates Wendell’s feminist approach to disability from a religious perspective, lived experience, moral, philosophical, cultural, social and legal laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran.