Disability, gender, and the trajectories of power / edited by Asha Hans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hans, Asha.

Rosengarten International Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women with disabilities--Social conditions.

Women with disabilities.

Women with disabilities--Psychology.

People with disabilities--Social conditions.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Psychology.

Persons with Disabilities.

Women.

Women's Health.

Social Conditions.

Feminism.

Sexism.

Medical Subjects:

Persons with Disabilities.

Women.

Women's Health.

Social Conditions.

Feminism.

Sexism.

Physical Description:

xii, 278 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2015.

Summary:

This book argues for the rights of women with disabilities, who live on the periphery of society, and seeks to eradicate the exclusion and stigma that are part of their lives. It brings together the perspectives of academicians and activists in trying to understand the various social issues faced by women with disabilities and argues for a society where they are not denied respect, equality, and justice. Filling the gap in the existing feminist research, this book seeks to influence the way in which society treats women with disabilities and will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the field of women's rights, disability rights, and rehabilitation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Gendering the disability framework

Part I: Disability: a gendered problematic and conceptualization. A gendered perspective of disability studies / Upali Chakravarti ; Women with disabilities: How do they fare in our society? / S.B. Agnihotri and Amrita Patel ; Women with psychosocial disabilities: shifting the lens from medical to social / Nilika Mehrotra and Mahima Nayar

Part II: Human experiences and agency. I feel normal inside. Outside, my body isn't! / Malini Chib ; What is the intersection between oppression of women and psychiatric oppression? / Tina Minkowitz ; Tale of married women with disabilities: an oxymoron reality / Santoshi Halder ; A disabled mother's journey in raising her child / Sandhya Limaye ; Developmental disability and the family: autism spectrum disorder in urban India / Shubhangi Vaidya

Part III: Toward nondiscriminatory gendered strategies. Yes, girls and women with disabilities do math! An intersectionality analysis / Stephanie Ortoleva ; Gendered constructions of work and disability in contemporary India: discursive and empirical perspectives / Renu Addlakha ; Legal capacity and civil political rights for people with psychosocial disabilities / Bhargavi V. Davar

Epilogue: Transforming invisibilities and obscure directions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version:

ISBN:

9789351501237

935150123X

OCLC:

905758587