Living the edges : a disabled women's reader

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."--Publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781926708324
ISBN: 1926708326
ISBN: 9781771330152
ISBN: 1771330155
ISBN: 9781926708171
ISBN: 1926708172
Physical Description: Computer data.
remote
1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Publisher: Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2010]
Copyright: �2010

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.17 Multi-User. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatMonthString:july.22
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 18, 2022).