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- noun The quality of being able-bodied.
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Examples
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As a person with a disability, I don't have to mimic able-bodiedness in order to be sexual.
Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011
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As a person with a disability, I don't have to mimic able-bodiedness in order to be sexual.
Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid? Cory Silverberg 2011
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Some stories even require it if they tell of a range of abilities or a sudden impairment preceded by able-bodiedness.
Blackface/Yellowface/*face Kay Olson 2007
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Ability and gender are inseparable in the complex personal interactions of disabled women within a society that privileges both male and able-bodiedness.
Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007
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Ability and gender are inseparable in the complex personal interactions of disabled women within a society that privileges both male and able-bodiedness.
Blind Rage and the legacy of Helen Keller Kay Olson 2006
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I would never claim radical feminists are the most knowledgeable people on matters of race because feminists as a whole are woman-centered-women necessarily hence the fem prefix, but I think as far as seeing the underlying forces that work together behind the institutionalized oppressions of gender, race, age, class, able-bodiedness, nationalism, etc. radical feminists have keener insights than most other kinds of feminists.
Is The Oppression of Women The Root Of All Oppressions? 2005
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Hmm, Walker reminds me of the social assumption of able-bodiedness and the social construction of disability, and as someone with a disabled roommate, I'm appauled that she is -- literally and metaphorically -- "running around" with such a privileged surname.
Readercon 16: Day 1 2005
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Favre, who began the streak with the Green Bay Packers, had started 297 consecutive regular season games, a staggering run of able-bodiedness that began in 1992, when Favre was 23 years old.
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW DAS 2010
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Green Bay Packers, had started 297 consecutive regular-season games, a staggering run of able-bodiedness that began in 1992, when Favre was 23.
NYT > Home Page By JUDY BATTISTA 2010
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Green Bay Packers, had started 297 consecutive regular-season games, a staggering run of able-bodiedness that began in 1992, when Favre was 23.
NYT > Home Page By JUDY BATTISTA 2010
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