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ablenormativity

ablenormativity noun: the assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.

Noun

ablenormativity (uncountable)

  1. The assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.
    • To illustrate: one example of the way in which ablenormativity exerts a withering pressure on the 'imagined possible futures' of disabled children lies in what Hans Reinders calls 'the presumption of suffering' of the disabled and those who care for them (Reinders, 2000, ch. 10).2009, Kevin McDonough, “The 'Futures' of Queer Children and the Common School Ideal”, in Graham Haydon, Mark Halstead, editors, The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal: A Defence by Richard...
    • Ablenormativity requires performing abledness and neurotypicality—apparent disability cannot be tolerated.2016, Lydia Brown, “'You don't feel like a freak anymore': Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, April Kalogeropoulos Householder...

Forms of ablenormativity

alternative formable-normativity

Origin of ablenormativity

From able + normativity.

Questions about ablenormativity

What does ablenormativity mean?
Ablenormativity means the assumption that all human beings are nondisabled, or the marginalization, stigmatization, or pathologization of disability and/or disabled people.
What part of speech is ablenormativity?
Ablenormativity is a noun.

Words near ablenormativity in the dictionary

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

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