Embracing Neurodiversity, but Not Really: Inclusionism and Women Detectives
摘要
This chapter focuses on disability representation via narratives wherein a woman detective is a lead character and coded as neurodivergent. Indebted to David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder’s (2015) notion of inclusionism, it examines how difference can be tolerated provided it abide by terms and conditions set by the normate. For difference to be incorporated, it must serve hegemonic social order or some moral function for able-bodied society. The chapter also explores how the incorporation of disability-coded characters carries meanings for the sexuality and reproduction of disabled people, and how crime narratives can realign disability with evil by putting disabled superheroes on par with forms of existence construed as “sub” or “supra-human.”