TY - GEN T1 - Women, disability, and culture T2 - Disability and the disabled - issues, laws and programs, women's issues A1 - Siri, Anna LA - English PP - New York PB - Nova Science Publishers YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1164821941 AB - "Women and girls with disabilities find themselves constantly having to deal with multiple, intersectional discrimination due to both their gender and their disability, as well as social conditioning. Indeed, the intersection made up of factors such as race, ethnic origin, social background, cultural substrate, age, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, gender, disability, status as refugee or migrant and others besides, has a multiplying effect that increases discrimination yet further. Where conditions are equal, women with disabilities do not enjoy equal opportunities in terms of their participation in all aspects of society; rather, they are all too often excluded, amongst others from education, employment, access to poverty reduction programmes, from taking part in political and public lives and, moreover, some legislative deeds actually prevent them from making decisions regarding their own lives, also as regards sexual and reproductive rights. History, attitudes and prejudices of the societies to which we belong, including of families, have created and continue to feed into a negative stereotypical image of women and girls with disabilities, thereby helping further isolate and marginalise them yet more. Very often, they are also ignored by information media and, when they do gain media attention, the approach tends to considers them from the perspective of medical-assistance needs, silencing their abilities and valuable contribution to the society in which they live. The book seeks to pay the right attention to the condition of women with disabilities, offering points for reflection, also on the different, often invisible, cultural and social undertones that continue today to feed into prejudicial stereotypes"-- CN - HV1569.3.W65 SN - 9781536181562 SN - 1536181560 SN - 9781536182439 SN - 1536182435 SN - 9781536182187 KW - Women with disabilities : Social conditions. KW - Discrimination against people with disabilities. KW - Sex discrimination against women. KW - Intersectionality (Sociology) KW - Femmes handicapées : Conditions sociales. KW - Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées. KW - Discrimination à l'égard des femmes. KW - Intersectionnalité. KW - Discrimination against people with disabilities KW - Sex discrimination against women KW - Women with disabilities : Social conditions ER -