Living the edges : a disabled women's reader / edited by Diane Driedger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Driedger, Diane

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women with disabilities--Canada.

Women with disabilities.

Discrimination against people with disabilities--Canada.

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

Sex discrimination against women--Canada.

Sex discrimination against women.

Sociology of disability.

Canada.

Sociology of disability--Canada.

Physical Description:

xiii, 349 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2010]

Summary:

"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 inaccessibility. They bring to light the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are women, and through ableism, because they have disabilities. For them, the personal is definitely political. While society traditionally views having a disability as "weakness" and that women are the "weaker" sex, this collection points to the strength, persistence, and resilience of disabled women living the edges."--Pub. desc.

Contents:

I. Who We Are on the Edges

Must Disability Always Be Visible? The Meaning of Disability for Women / Sharon Dale Stone

A Longer Journey of Reflexivity: Becoming a Domesticated Academic / Laura Hockman

"Self-Portrait with Bandaged Breast (After Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear)" / Diane Driedger

Proliferation / Diane Driedger

Medication Reaction / Diane Driedger

Radiation / Diane Driedger

Living on the Edges / Charlotte Caron and Gail Christy

Cry Not Crazy Lady / Marie Annharte Baker

"Post-Kelly Re: Constructed Reality" / Kelly-Jo Dorvault

Arthritic Dreams II / Renee Norman

Feminism, Disability and Transcendence of the Body / Susan Wendell

"Untitled Painting" / Anjali Dookeran

Black Thread Around / Marie Annharte Baker.

II. Naming the Edges: Barriers

Margins Are Not For Cowards / Cheryl Gibson

"Me, Myself and I" / Winsom

Triple Jeopardy: Native Women with Disabilities / Doreen Demas

Coming Out of Two Closets / Jane Field

Performing My Leaky Body / Julie Devaney

To Be Or Not to Be? Whose Question Is It, Anyway? Two Women with Disabilities Discuss the Right to Assisted Suicide / Tanis Doe and Barbara Ladouceur

A Delicate Balance: Chronic Conditions and Workspace / Nancy E. Hansen

Living Poorly: Disabled Women on Income Support / Sally A. Kimpson

Disability Diss Away / Marie Annharte Baker

The Geography of Oppression / Joy Asham

III. Violence on the Edges

An Intersectional Perspective on Violence: A New Response / Maria Barile

undr the dislexic tree / Alexandra Pasian

"Have You Experienced Violence or Abuse?": Talking with Girls and Young Women with Disabilities / Michelle Owen

When Bad Things Happen: Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Other Mistreatments Against Manitoba Women with Intellectual Disabilities / The Association for Community Living-Manitoba

"Untitled Woodcut" / Anjali Dookeran

Lions / Joanna M. Weston.

IV. With Us on the Edges: Relationships and Sexuality

New Reproductive Technology: My Personal and Political Dichotomy / Maria Barile

Deaf-Mute? / Jancis M. Andrews

Disability and Relationships / Tracy Odell

Marriage-able? Cultural Perspectives of Women with Disabilities of South Asian Origin / Lynda Nancoo

"The Critical Woman and the Space Cadet" / Carrie R. Cardwell

"You think I want to make fuck with you": Travelling with a Disability or Two / Milana Todoroff

Access-Sex Series / Kyla Harris and Sarah Murray

V. Challenging the Edges

When the Body Protests: New Forms of Activism / Diane Driedger

Creating Community Across Disability and Difference / Carla Rice, Hilde Zitzelsberger, Wendy Porch and Esther Ignagni

Walking a Woman's Path: Women with Intellectual Disabilities / The Women's Group, Community Living-Winnipeg

The First Step Is To Be Noticed / Dianne Pothier

Art, Sticks and Politics / Nancy E. Hansen and Diane Driedger

"Untitled Drawing" / Anjali Dookeran

The Freedom Tour Documentary: An Experiment in Inclusive Filmaking / Josée Boulanger, Susie Wieszmann and Valerie Wolbert

The Disabled Women's Movement: From Where Have We Come? / Pat Israel and Fran Odette

Leadership, Partnership and Networking: A Way Forward for the DisAbled Women's Network of Canada / Bonnie Brayton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781926708171

1926708172

OCLC:

664424283