Journal article
The intersection of disability, feminism, and RT/TR
Leisure = Loisir, Vol.39(1), pp.135-155
01/02/2015
DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2015.1074402
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the intersection between disability, feminism, and recreation therapy/therapeutic recreation (RT/TR). Historically, RT/TR has been a discipline attractive to women because an ethic of care is characteristically associated with RT/TR and the moral development of women. However, frustrated by the lack of respect accorded RT/TR, practitioners (mostly women) have endorsed the medical model with the hope that it would provide a source of appreciation. Unfortunately, the results of endorsing the medical model have yielded only an illusion of respect and further caused the negative construction of disability and play - contributing to the stigmatization of both. The effects of stigma have been oppressive at the intersection: RT/TR is a field where a stigmatized population (disabled) is assisted by a marginalized group (women) using an "irrelevant" human activity (play). The alternative is to "come out" with the merits of play and inclusion as worthwhile results of RT/TR.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The intersection of disability, feminism, and RT/TR
- Creators
- Kenneth E Mobily - Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Leisure = Loisir, Vol.39(1), pp.135-155
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/14927713.2015.1074402
- ISSN
- 1492-7713
- eISSN
- 2151-2221
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/02/2015
- Academic Unit
- Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984002426202771
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