The mutant body of/in disability

Abstract

The understanding, interpretation and acceptance of disability also pass through the perception of the limitations, potentialities, and estrangement of the body, which is considered one of the unrepeatable and unique elements of the different person. The multiple expressions of corporeality in people with disabilities, are bearers of identities, images, symbols, meanings, values and/or stigma capable of influencing the complex social and cultural contexts of liquid contemporaneity while undergoing its multiple and, sometimes discriminating, conditioning. The contribution intends to offer some insights, of a theoretical nature, related to the different and singular bodily dimensions of disability, with particular reference to the condition and experiences of the prosthetic body, in the formative perspective of re-construction and self-care.