Disability Perspectives on the Ordinary (and Extraordinary) Lives of Blind Women

Japan's Hidden Nineteenth-Century Disability
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Japan's Hidden Nineteenth-Century Disability Perspective on Lives Ordinary of Blind Women
The sociocultural aspect of disability in Japan during the 19th century took a hidden perspective on two characters namely the interfering and the damage. The discrimination of disabilities exceptionally ordinary blind women was at its peak due to the pathological views hence the Japanese society exercises stereotyping behaviors to the visually impaired women. The Japanese culture discriminated people with disabilities especially the blind women during the nineteenth century. The essay addresses the meaning of disability, the role of gender and reveals the hidden atrocities of Japanese on disabled persons especially blind women.
In the 19th century, Japan's culture portrayed disabilities as merely physical impairment without regarding the social and environmental context. Many incidences of disabilities at the time resulted in stereotyping, inequality, discrimination based on gender differences with blind women receiving the worst of treatments. Therefore, the public at the time treated people with disabilities at otherness that heightened perception. The aspect of discrimination in Japan on people with disabilities escalated due to the pathological views. Shōgai as a disability term in Japan centered on the physical impairment. However, the Japanese currently get new meaning of shōgai in the social context and academic engagements. Therefore, the new definiti...