Women with disabilities : essays in psychology, culture, and politics /

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Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common to women in a male-dominated society. But because society persists in viewing disability as an emblem of passivity and incompetence, disabled women occupy a devalued status in the social hierarchy. This book repre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fine, Michelle, Asch, Adrienne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1988.
Colección:Health, society, and policy.
Temas:
Women with disabilities.
Sex discrimination against women.
Women with disabilities > Psychology.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
Medical care.
Human rights.
Social control.
Sociology.
Social sciences.
Women.
People with disabilities.
Women's rights.
Delivery of Health Care
Human Rights
Persons
Named Groups
Social Control, Formal
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Sociology
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Disabled Persons > psychology
Women
Disabled Persons
Women > psychology
Women's Rights
Patient Care
Femmes handicapées.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes.
Femmes handicapées > Psychologie.
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées.
Prestation de soins.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Contrôle social.
Sociologie.
Sciences sociales.
Femmes.
Personnes handicapées.
Femmes > Droits.
Soins médicaux.
sociology.
social sciences.
women (female humans)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Women's rights
Social sciences
Social control
People with disabilities
Medical care
Human rights
Discrimination against people with disabilities
Sex discrimination against women
Women with disabilities
Women with disabilities > Psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Jeffrey Z. Rubin
  • Foreword / Virginia E. O'Leary
  • Beyond pedestals / Adrienne Asch, Michelle Fine
  • Bodies and images. On embodiment : a case study of congenital limb deficiency in American Culture / Gelya Frank
  • Sex roles and culture : social and personal reactions to breast cancer / Beth E. Meyerowitz, Shelly Chaiken, Laura K. Clark
  • In search of a heroine : images of women with disabilities in fiction and drama / Deborah Kent
  • Disabled women in relationships. Construction of gender and disability in early attachment / Adrienne Harris, Dana Wideman
  • Daughters with disabilities : defective women or minority women? / Harilyn Rousso
  • Friendship and fairness : how disability affects friendship between women / Berenice Fisher, Roberta Galler
  • Disability and ethnicity in conflict : a study in transformation / Marilynn J. Phillips
  • Never married old women and disability ; a majority experience / Barbara Levy Simon
  • Policy and politics. Women, work, and disability: opportunities and challenges / Nancy Felope Russo, Mary A. Jansen
  • Disabled women and public policies for income support / Nancy R. Mudrick
  • Autonomy as a different voice : women, disabilities, and decisions / Joanna K. Weinberg
  • Smashing icons : disabled women and the disability and women's movements / Marian Blackwell-Stratton [and others]
  • Epilogue: Research and politics to come / Michelle Fine, Adrienne Asch.

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