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Women and Disability Resources
These are social, academic, activist, and just-for-fun online resources I've collected on women and disability. If you know of any online resources on women and disability that I can include on this page, please email me*.
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Why focus on women with disabilities? Because:
Experiences of exclusion, being devalued, of assumptions about incapacity, and the need for (often unwanted) help all intersect in a particularly powerful way for women with disabilities -- all the more for women of color and/or lesbians who have disabilities.
Looking at disability through the lens of a feminist, and at feminism from a disability perspective enriches both feminism and disability studies with fresh insights.
Thanks to the Fact sheet on women with disabilities and development for the following items:
Women with disabilities experience a high incidence of abuse - physical, emotional and sexual.
Women with disabilities are the poorest of the poor around the world.
In every sphere of life, women with disabilities in the developing world experience a triple bind: they are discriminated against because they are women, because they are disabled and because they are from the developing world.
In many developing countries, there are few educational opportunities for disabled girls. When there are opportunities for education, in special schools, boys usually receive them.
Many women are disabled due to the practice of female circumcision and infibulation in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Women are disabled with urinary and gynecological infections, fistulas that prevent walking and through trauma induced by the procedure.
The unemployment rate for disabled women in developing countries is virtually 100%.
Women and Disability
General Resources
GimpGirl Community, a community with online links and forums for women with disabilities to share experiences.
Disability Cool: Women's Stuff
DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) Ontario
Having a daughter with a disability (National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities)
NOW's Disability Rights Committee
Military Woman's forum for disabled women vets
Center for Research on Women with Disabilities
Sexuality
"Forbidden Fruit", an excellent article on disability and sexuality.
"Women with Disabilities: Health, Reproduction and Sexuality", by Laura Hershey, another excellent article.
Economics
Fact sheet on women with disabilities and development, from the Public Participation Program, Canadian International Development Agency.
General Women's Resources
The Feminist Majority Foundation.
National Women's History Project.
National Museum of Women in the Arts.
The Women's Studies Department at San Diego State University. Established in 1970, it is the oldest Women's Studies Department in nation.
Phenomenal Women of the Web
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