Women and Disability

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Author: Susan Lonsdale

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780312046132

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Interviews with physically handicapped women from different social and economic backgrounds reveal the impact of their disability on their sexuality, relationships, marriage, and childbearing

Women with Disabilities

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Author: Michelle Fine

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781439901601

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The integration of gender studies with disability scholarship.

Gender and Disability

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Author: Lina Abu-Habib

Publisher: Oxfam

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780855983635

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With Gender and Disability, Lina Abu-Habib examines the situation of women with various types of disability in the Middle East context, and describes the evolution of Oxfam's perspective on working with disabled women.

Women and Disability

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Author: Esther Boylan

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Het boek belicht verschillende facetten van de maatschappelijke positie van gehandicapte vrouwen in ontwikkelingslanden : de dubbele discriminatie als vrouw en als gehandicapte, de stigmatisering tengevolge van de bestaande vooroordelen ten aanzien van gehandicapten. De auteur bekijkt tevens de positieve rol van preventieve en rehabilitatieprogramma's, en van opvoeding en arbeid. Een aantal van deze innovatieve projecten worden in het boek beschreven.

Women, Disability, and Culture

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Author: Anna Siri

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781536182187

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"Women and girls with disabilities find themselves constantly having to deal with multiple, intersectional discrimination due to both their gender and their disability, as well as social conditioning. Indeed, the intersection made up of factors such as race, ethnic origin, social background, cultural substrate, age, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, gender, disability, status as refugee or migrant and others besides, has a multiplying effect that increases discrimination yet further. Where conditions are equal, women with disabilities do not enjoy equal opportunities in terms of their participation in all aspects of society; rather, they are all too often excluded, amongst others from education, employment, access to poverty reduction programmes, from taking part in political and public lives and, moreover, some legislative deeds actually prevent them from making decisions regarding their own lives, also as regards sexual and reproductive rights. History, attitudes and prejudices of the societies to which we belong, including of families, have created and continue to feed into a negative stereotypical image of women and girls with disabilities, thereby helping further isolate and marginalise them yet more. Very often, they are also ignored by information media and, when they do gain media attention, the approach tends to considers them from the perspective of medical-assistance needs, silencing their abilities and valuable contribution to the society in which they live. The book seeks to pay the right attention to the condition of women with disabilities, offering points for reflection, also on the different, often invisible, cultural and social undertones that continue today to feed into prejudicial stereotypes"--

Women and Disability

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Author: Mary Jo Deegan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1351318063

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The special needs of women with disabilities have been disregarded in a wide variety of vital areas. Issues pertain to women as wives and mothers. Studies of the effects on female sexuality of such conditions as renal disease and diabetes are lacking, though the sexual functioning of men with these diseases has been researched. On the economic front, the Federal-State Vocational Rehabilitation system and the regulations concerning disability benefits under Social Security provide less adequately for women than for men. Hopefully, this volume will raise the consciousness of its readers to the special status of women with disabilities as a minority group experiences multiple sources of discriminations.

Women and Disability in Medieval Literature

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Author: T. Pearman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-14

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0230117562

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This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like gender and disability get coded as deviant.

Women, Disability and Identity

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Author: Asha Hans

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2003-04-08

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780761997009

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'This is a welcome addition to the literature on women with disabilities... it is a good resource for those working in international development, whether they are scholars, women with disabilities or policymakers' - Gender and Development This volume consists of critical and theoretical articles about women with disabilities in both developed and developing countries. Disabled women and their place in these societies has been a subject that has been neglected in the past, therefore these essays will fill a gap in the evolving literature on disability studies. The nature of the problems faced by disabled women are such that they need to be addressed by both the feminist and disability movements. But the fact is that they remain invisible within the women's movement at large. This volume, therefore, attempts to provide a space to women with disabilities in the global feminist literature and movement.

Physical Disability and Sexuality

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Author: Xanthe Hunt

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 3030555674

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This open access edited volume explores physical disability and sexuality in South Africa, drawing on past studies, new research conducted by the editors, and first-person narratives from people with physical disabilities in the country. Sexuality has long been a site of oppression and discrimination for people with disabilities based on myths and misconceptions, and this book explores how these play out for people with physical disabilities in the South African setting. One myth with which the book is centrally concerned, is that people with disabilities are unable to have sex, or are seen as lacking sexuality by society at large. Societal understandings of masculinity, femininity, bodies and attractiveness, often lead people with physical disabilities to be seen as being undesirable romantic or sexual partners. The contributions in this volume explore how these prevailing social conditions impact on the access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, involvement in romantic relationships, childbearing, and sexual citizenship as a whole, of people with physical disabilities in the Western Cape of the country. The authors' research, and first person contributions by people with physical disabilities themselves, suggest that education and public health policy must change, if the sexual and reproductive health rights and full inclusion of people with disabilities are to be achieved.