Dimensions of Oppression: Theorising the embodied subject

The challenges of intersectionality: researching difference in physical education1

“…A social model of disability seeks to move the debate away from a focus on impairment, adaptation and deficiency that characterises the medical model of disability, to a focus on the social construction of disability through practices and discourses in society. However, as Marks (1999) notes, both models might be best seen as different sides of the same coin, and both, by themselves, offer restricted understandings of individuals' experiences of disability. She shows the significance of embodied experiences, by attending to disabled pupils' everyday, lived experiences of PE (in this case, boys).…”

Tackling the barriers to disabled parents’ involvement in their children’s education

“…It is said to understate -or ignore -the implications of impairment (Crowe 1996), devalue the significance of personal experience (Marks 1999), fail to take into account the influence of gender (Morris 1996) and ethnicity (Stuart 1993) and neglect people with learning disabilities (Chappell 1997) or mental distress (Beresford 2002). Swain and French (2000) proposed an "affirmation model" of disability intended to "build on" the social model by focussing on disabled people's strengths and positive identities: Whereas the social model is generated by disabled people's experiences within a disabling society, the affirmative model is borne of disabled people's experiences as valid individuals, as determining their own lifestyles, culture and identity.…”

Feeling disability: theories of affect and critical disability studies

“…(Marks 1999a;21) Such feelings of emotional and ontological invalidation risk self-harm and self-hatred (Marks 1999b, 615, also see Hughes 2009). Goodley too has deployed social psychoanalytic concepts to explain further the generation of fear, disgust but also attraction in relation to disability displayed by non-disabled culture (Goodley 2011(Goodley , 2014(Goodley , 2016.…”

“…Goodley too has deployed social psychoanalytic concepts to explain further the generation of fear, disgust but also attraction in relation to disability displayed by non-disabled culture (Goodley 2011(Goodley , 2014(Goodley , 2016. This analysis was indebted to the writings of Marks (1999aMarks ( , 1999bMarks ( , 2002 and Watermeyer (2013) who as therapists trained in the psychoanalytic tradition are far more skilled in deploying this theoretical language. Both were keen to understand the ontological damage done to disabled people whilst living in a society that veers from not recognising disabled people as valued members of society to conceptualising disability solely in terms of deficit and lack.…”

“…Hughes' work builds sociologically on the psychological and psychoanalytic analysis of Marks (1999aMarks ( , 1999bMarks ( , 2002) that sought to probe unconscious responses to disability. Marks powerfully argued that being subjected to the damaging pathologising projections of others risked being internalised by disabled people:…”