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    "'Founding Feminists' Series",
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    "Disabled Women and Disability Rights",
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  "textContent": "Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a pioneering scholar of bioethics, humanities, disability justice and culture, and professor emerita at Emory University. Widely considered the founder of feminist disability studies, Garland-Thomson is the author of several canonical works, including _Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Culture and Literature_ (1997) and the influential essay, “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory” (2002).\n\nOn the nation’s 250th anniversary and for the series on “America’s Founding Feminists,” _Ms._ ’ guest editor Janell Hobson spoke with Garland-Thomson about disability history and its connections to women’s history.\n\nShe argues centering disability reshapes our understanding of history, citizenship and whose lives are recognized as foundational to U.S. democracy.\n\n\"Women's bodies have always offered men an opportunity to talk about nations, to talk about themselves, to talk about government.\"\n\n\"... These human variations that we think of as disabilities are often an opportunity for resourcefulness.\"\n\n**(This essay is part of the FEMINIST 250: Founding Feminists series, marking the 250th anniversary of America by reclaiming the revolution through the women and gender-expansive people whose ideas, labor and resistance shaped U.S. democracy.)**\n\nThe post Making Disability Visible in History: A Conversation With Rosemarie Garland-Thomson appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
  "title": "Making Disability Visible in History: A Conversation With Rosemarie Garland-Thomson"
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