Disability, gender, and the trajectories of power /

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Imprint:Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2015.
Description:xii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10894034
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Other authors / contributors:Hans, Asha.
ISBN:9789351501237
935150123X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Gendering the Disability Framework
  • Section 1. Disability: A Gendered Problematic and Conceptualization
  • Chapter 1. A Gendered Perspective of Disability Studies
  • Chapter 2. Women with Disabilities: How Do They Fare in Our Society?
  • Chapter 3. Women with Psychosocial Disabilities: Shifting the Lens from Medical to Social
  • Section 2. Human Experiences and Agency
  • Chapter 4. I Feel Normal Inside. Outside, My Body Isn't!
  • Chapter 5. What Is the Intersection between Oppression of Women and Psychiatric Oppression?
  • Chapter 6. Tale of Married Women with Disabilities: An Oxymoron Reality
  • Chapter 7. A Disabled Mother's Journey in Raising Her Child
  • Chapter 8. Developmental Disability and the Family: Austim Specturm Disorder in Urban India
  • Section 3. Toward Nondiscriminatory Gendered Strategies
  • Chapter 9. Yes, Girls and Women with Disabilities Do Math! An Intersectionality Analysis
  • Chapter 10. Gendered Constructions of Work and Disability in Contermporary India: Discursive and Empirical Perspectives
  • Chapter 11. Legal Capacity and Civil Political Rights for People with Psychosocial Disabilities
  • Epilogue: Transforming Invisibilities and Obscure Directions
  • About the Editor and Constributors
  • Index