Women, Disability, and Culture

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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 theright 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 Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Disability and Health Chapter 1 Concepts of Disability and Health: A Theoretical Excursus Abstract Introduction The Evolution of Theoretical Models of Disability The Model of Charity or Moral Model: The Disability to Be Protected Religious/Moral Model of Disability The Individual or Medical Model: Disability as a Disease The Social Model: Disability as a Socially Constructed Phenomenon Some Variants of the Social Model: The Identity Model and the Human Rights Model The Human Development Model-Disability Creation Process (HDM-DCP or MDH-PPH in French language): A Model That Does Not Place the Responsibility of Disability on the Person The Cultural Model: Disability as Culture The Model of Limits: Limits as a Common Aspect of the Human Being Other Models of Economic, Organisational and Welfare Nature The Biopsychosocial Model: An Holistic Approach The Social-Oriented Recovery Vision for Mental Illness Conclusion References Chapter 2 The Universal Nature of Disability Abstract Introduction Concepts of Functioning and Disability The Cultural Revolution of the IFC Model Conclusion and Perspectives References Chapter 3 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by, for and with Persons with Disabilities Abstract Introduction Development Goals for Persons with Disabilities Mainstreaming Disability into Sustainable Development Goals Practical Implication References Some Final Reflections Part II. Women and Disability Chapter 4 An Historical Introduction to Engendered Disability. An International Point of View Abstract Introduction Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The European Context Conclusion Cross References References Chapter 5 Notes on Intersectional Approach and Feminist Disability Studies. An Historical Excursus Abstract Introduction Intersectionality Feminist Disability Studies – Notes Conclusion References Chapter 6 Does Everybody Count? The Case of Women with Disabilities Abstract Disability Is Not a Gender-Neutral Condition The Disability and Gender-Related Global Indicator Framework for Sustainable Development Goals Current Approaches to Data Collection on Disability and Gender-Related Condition Conclusion References Resources for Information and Data by International Organizations in the Area of Disability and Gender-Related Statistics Some Final Reflections Part III. Women, Disability and Culture Chapter 7 Non Disabled Researchers and Disability Studies Abstract Introduction From the Social Model of Disability to Contemporary Approaches The Emancipatory Paradigm Emerges from the Social Model of Disability Can Non-Disabled Researchers Play a Role in Disability Research? Feminist Scholars in Disability Studies Gender and Feminist Studies, Disability Research: New Alliances The Fluidity and Impredictability of Impairment and Disability Promoting Inclusion through Structural Change Towards Disability Inclusion Plans? Conclusion Acknowledgments References Chapter 8 Women with Disabilities: A Cultural Heritage? Disability, Gender and Culture: An Italian Approach Abstract Introduction The Italian Cultural Paradigm Notes on Italian Literature and Disability Disability, Culture and Sociological Approach Conclusion References Chapter 9 Women with Disabilities Living in Rural Areas and Facing Violence: An Intersectional Perspective Abstract Introduction Demographic Data on Women with Disabilities Rurality as an Analytical Category Access to Services for Rural Women Victims of Domestic Violence Cultural Barriers in Disclosing the Violence in Rural Areas Disability, Gender and Rurality in Governmental Action Programmes Conclusion References Appendix: Tables Chapter 10 Mothering as a Human Rights Issue of Women with Disabilities in Current Post-Socialist Social Context Abstract Introduction The Right of People with Disabilities to Intimate Decisions in Post-Socialist Contexts Resistance to Deinstitutionalisation in Post-Socialist Countries: The Case of Slovenia Institutionalisation Community-Based Services Prejudices against Mothering of Women with Disabilities The Mothering Experiences of Women with Disabilities in Slovenia Mothers with Physical and Sensory Impairments Women with Intellectual Disabilities Conclusion Acknowledgments References Conclusion References About the Authors Index Blank Page