ABSTRACT
In thirty years, disabilities have gone from being seen as falling outside the scope of justice to being regarded as a central challenge for theories of justice. Moreover, that challenge has come to be framed in terms congenial to, and influenced by, disability scholars and activists. The most ofteninvoked person with a disability is no longer the fictional “happy cripple,” Tiny Tim, resolutely euphoric in his impairment, illness, and poverty, but the very real Sesha Kittay, whose mother, philosopher Eva Kittay, has argued for a reconstruction of Rawls’s framework to encompass humans with substantial cognitive limitations like her daughter’s (1997).
