Living the edges : a disabled women's reader /

"This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Driedger, Diane (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2010]
Temas:
Women with disabilities > Canada.
Discrimination against people with disabilities > Canada.
Sex discrimination against women > Canada.
Sociology of disability > Canada.
People with disabilities.
Women.
Disabled Persons
Women
Femmes handicapées > Canada.
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées > Canada.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > Canada.
Handicap > Canada > Aspect sociologique.
Personnes handicapées.
Femmes.
women (female humans)
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Sex discrimination against women
Sociology of disability
Women with disabilities
Canada
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I Who we are on the Edges
  • Must Disability Always Be Visible? The Meaning of Disability for Women
  • A Longer Journey of Reflexivity: Becoming a Domesticated Academic
  • "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Breast (After Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear)"
  • Proliferation
  • Medication Reaction
  • Radiation
  • Living on the Edges
  • Cry Not Crazy. Lady
  • "Post-Kelly Re: Constructed Reality"
  • Arthritic Dreams II
  • Feminism, Disability and Transcendence of the Body
  • "Untitled Painting"
  • Black Thread Around
  • Naming the Edges: Barriers
  • Margins Are Not For Cowards
  • "Me, Myself and I"
  • Triple Jeopardy: Native Women with Disabilities
  • Coming Out of Two Closets
  • Performing My Leaky Body
  • To Be Or Not to Be? Whose Question Is It, Anyway? Two Women with Disabilities Discuss the Right to Assisted Suicide
  • A Delicate Balance: Chronic Conditions and Workspace
  • Living Poorly: Disabled Women on Income Support
  • Disability Diss Away
  • The Geography of Oppression
  • III Violence on the Edges
  • An Intersectional Perspective on Violence: A New Response
  • undr the dislexic tree
  • "Have You Experienced Violence or Abuse?": Talking with Girls and Young Women with Disabilities
  • When Bad Things Happen: Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Other Mistreatments Against Manitoba Women with Intellectual Disabilities The Association for Community Living-Manitoba
  • "Untitled Woodcut"
  • Lions
  • IV With us on the Edges: Relationships and Sexuality
  • New Reproductive Technology: My Personal and Political Dichotomy
  • Deaf-Mute?
  • Disability and Relationships
  • Marriage-able? Cultural Perspectives of Women with Disabilities of South Asian Origin
  • "The Critical Woman and the Space Cadet"
  • "You think I want to make fuck with you": Travelling with a Disability or Two
  • Access-Sex Series
  • V Challenging The Edges
  • When the Body Protests: New Forms of Activism
  • Creating Community Across Disability and Difference
  • Walking a Woman's Path: Women with Intellectual Disabilities The Women's Group, Community Living-Winnipeg
  • The First Step Is To Be Noticed
  • Art, Sticks and Politics
  • "Untitled Drawing"
  • The Freedom Tour Documentary: An Experiment in Inclusive Filmaking
  • The Disabled Women's Movement: From Where Have We Come?
  • Leadership, Partnership and Networking: A Way Forward for the DisAbled Women's Network of Canada.

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