She argues persuasively that the physically disabled body is not a defective body, but simply a minority body that does not by itself or intrinsically make someone worse off. In The minority body: a theory of disability, Elizabeth Barnes builds upon disability as a social category, specifically focusing her argument on well-being in association with the disabled body. More so, disability theorists critically analyze disabled bodies as a social phenomenon that becomes categorized as a minority, similar to race and sexuality. It has been and remains common amongst theorists and scholars to analyze disabled bodies in comparison to abled bodies.
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