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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto [Ont.] : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., c2010

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781926708324

1926708326

OCLC:

760412203