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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Concepts of Disability and Health: A Theoretical Excursus; Towards a Common Language for Functioning, Disability and Health; The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development By, for and with Persons with Disabilities; An Historical Introduction to Engendered Disability: An International Point of View; Notes on Intersectional Approach and Feminist Disability Studies: An Historical Excursus; Does Everybody Count? the Case of Women with Disabilities; Non-disabled Researchers and Disability Studies; Women with Disability: A Cultural Heritage? Disability, Gender and Culture: An Italian Approach; Women with Disabilities Living in Rural Areas and Facing Violence: An Intersectional Perspective; Mothering as a Human Right Issue of Women with Disabilities in Current Post-socialist Social Context; Conclusions.
