scholarly journals Feminist disability studies vs discrimination of women with disabilities

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
TOMASZ KASPRZAK
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
As If ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Tomasz Kasprzak, Feminist disability studies vs discrimination of women with disabilities. Interdisciplinary Contexts of Special Pedagogy, no. 24, Poznań 2019.Pp. 127-138. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-391X. DOI: https://doi. org/10.14746/ikps.2019.24.07 Disabled women are often treated as if they were deprived of feelings or desires.They are exposed to discrimination not only because of disability, but also because of gender (multiple discrimination). Feminist disability studies are an interdisciplinary field of research into the socio-political situation of women with disabilities.

scholarly journals Taking a Feminist Disability Studies Approach to Fundamental British Values

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Houston
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Identity Groups

In this article, Fundamental British Values (FBV) are understood as a token attempt toward societal inclusion and empowerment of all citizens. Rather than providing meaningful routes for all individuals to be included in British citizenship, FBV are built on foundations of “inclusionism”—the inclusion of marginalized identity groups in society, on the premise that existing social structures are not threatened. Disabled women’s responses to sociocultural stereotypes surrounding disability and gender are interpreted through a feminist disability studies lens. Empirical data, gathered within a larger research project which examined disabled women’s responses to the representation of disabled women in Anglo-American advertising, are drawn on and connections are made between the growing trend of promoting diversity in advertising, and superficial approaches to diversity and empowerment of all citizens, enacted in FBV. Two key themes underpin this critical discussion: participant resistance to “pity” narratives surrounding the portrayal of disabled women in advertising and disabled women’s navigation of “belonging” in exclusionary environments.

scholarly journals Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Slater ◽  
Kirsty Liddiard
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
Universal Health

We argue the need for coalition between trans and disability studies and activism, and that Disability Studies gives us the tools for this task. Our argument rests upon six facets. First and foremost, we explicitly acknowledge the existence of trans disabled people, arguing that Disability Studies must recognise the diversity of disabled people’s lives. Second, we consider how the homogenisation of womanhood, too often employed in transmisogonist arguments particularly when coming from those claiming to be feminists, harm both non-disabled trans women and cis disabled women. This leads to our third point, that Feminist Disability studies must be anti-reductive, exploring how gendered experiences rest upon other social positions (disability, queerness, race etc.) Fourth, we reflect upon the ways in which Disability Studies and feminism share a struggle for bodily autonomy, and that this should include trans people’s bodily autonomy. Finally, we argue that Trans and Disability Studies and activism share complex and critical relationships with medicine, making Disability and Trans Studies useful allies in the fight for better universal health care. We conclude by calling for our colleagues in Disability Studies to challenge transmisogony and transphobia and that transphobia is not compatible with Disability Studies perspectives.

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AMONGST WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF MWENEZI DISTRICT, ZIMBABWE

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tafadzwa Rugoho ◽  
France Maphosa
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Community Perceptions ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Impact

This article is based on a study of gender-based violence against women with disabilities. The study sought to examine the factors that make such women vulnerable, to investigate the community’s responses to gender-based violence against women with disabilities, and to determine the impact of gender-based violence on the wellbeing and health of women with disabilities. The study adopted a qualitative research design so as to arrive at an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon under study. The study sample consisted of 48 disabled women living in marital or common law unions, selected using purposive sampling. Of the 48 women in the sample, 16 were visually impaired while the remaining 32 had other physical disabilities. Focus group discussions were used for data collection. The data were analysed using the thematic approach. The finding was that women with disabilities also experience gender-based violence. The study makes recommendations whose thrust is to change community perceptions on disability as the only guarantee towards eradicating gender-based violence against women with disabilities.

Wyclif and the wheel of time

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Time Factor ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Right Relationship ◽  
The Right ◽  
As If

During the 1370s Wyclif wrote to defend a monarchy which made extensive use of bishops and other clergy in the royal administration and yet was faced with aristocratic factions encouraged by bishops like Wykeham and Courtenay who espoused papal supremacy, if not out of conviction, at least as a very convenient weapon to support their independence against royal absolutism. At first sight Wyclifs attempts to define the right relationship between royal and episcopal, temporal and spiritual, power seem as confused as the contemporary political situation. His works contain such a wide range of theories from orthodox two swords dualism to a radical rejection of ecclesiastical authority well beyond that of Marsilius and Ockham that it seems as if his only interest was in collecting every anti-hierocratic idea available for use against the papacy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a much more coherent view of episcopal power can be detected beneath his tirades if it is appreciated that his continual demand for a great reform, a reformatio regni et ecclesiae, is inseparably linked to his understanding of the history of the Christian Church, and that in this way Wyclif anticipates Montesquieu in requiring a time factor as a necessary ingredient in constitutional arrangements.

Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies

Signs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-55
Author(s):  
Sami Schalk ◽  
Jina B. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies
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