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„Czy adoptowałeś już niepełnosprawne dziecko?”: przyczynek do analizy niepełnosprawności w dyskursie pro-choice w Polsce
“Have You Already Adopted a Disabled Child?”: Disability in the Pro-Choice Discourse in Poland

Author(s): Natalia Pamuła
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Psychology, Polish Literature, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Culture, Present Times (2010 - today), American Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: abortion; Black Protest; disability studies; feminist disability studies; reproductive justice;

Summary/Abstract: Focusing on the Black Protests in 2016 and 2018, Pamuła explores how the Polish prochoice movement uses disability as a rhetorical device to defend abortion rights without referring to the subjectivity and rights of people with disabilities. She takes a critical look at expressions such as “little monsters” (referring to fetuses with diagnosed abnormalities) by drawing on disability studies and feminist disability studies. Discussing the social and the medical model of disability she asks how effective it would be to replace the debate on abortion with a debate on reproductive justice in the context of disability.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 86-103
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish