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ablenormative

ablenormative adjective: exhibiting, characteristic of, or related to ablenormativity.

Adjective

ablenormative (comparative more ablenormative, superlative most ablenormative)

  1. Exhibiting, characteristic of, or related to ablenormativity.
    • It produces two subject positions: a “disabled development subject” and an “ablenormative development subject”.2016, Carol Bacchi, Susan Goodwin, Poststructural Policy: Analysis A Guide to Practice, page 79
    • If we were to adopt the values that Davidson articulates, we would need to change the fundamental social conditions that currently maintain scarcity of resources and uphold ablenormative standards for education, labor, and other aspects of life.2016, Lydia X. Z. Brown, "Legal Ableism, Interrupted: Developing Tort Law & Policy Alternatives to Wrongful Birth & Wrongful Life Claims", in Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 38, Number 2, Spring...

Forms of ablenormative

comparativemore ablenormative
superlativemost ablenormative

Origin of ablenormative

From able + normative.

Questions about ablenormative

What does ablenormative mean?
Ablenormative means exhibiting, characteristic of, or related to ablenormativity.
What part of speech is ablenormative?
Ablenormative is an adjective.

Words near ablenormative in the dictionary

  1. ablen
  2. ablenationalism
  3. ablenationalist
  4. ableness
  5. ablenesses
  6. ablenormative
  7. ablenormativity
  8. ablens
  9. ablepharia
  10. ablepharon
  11. ablepharon macrostomia syndrome

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