Women and Disability

The Double Handicap

Mary Jo Deegan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

158 Seiten

1984
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-88738-017-4 (ISBN)

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The special needs of women with disabilities have been disregarded in a wide variety of vital areas. Issues pertain to women as wives and mothers. Studies of the effects on female sexuality of such conditions as renal disease and diabetes are lacking, though the sexual functioning of men with these diseases has been researched. On the economic front, the Federal-State Vocational Rehabilitation system and the regulations concerning disability benefits under Social Security provide less adequately for women than for men. Hopefully, this volume will raise the consciousness of its readers to the special status of women with disabilities as a minority group experiences multiple sources of discriminations.

Mary Jo Deegan

1: Introduction Women and Disability: The Double Handicap; 2: Disabled Women: Sexism without the Pedestal; 3: The Invisible Isolation of Deaf Women: Its Effect on Social Awareness; 4: Multiple Minority Groups: A Case Study of Physically Disabled Women; 5: Sex Role Attitudes and Role Reorganization in Spinal Cord Injured Women; 6: Benefits for the Disabled: How Beneficial for Women?; 7: Assertiveness Training for Women with Visual Impairments; 8: A Peer Counseling Training Program for Disabled Women: A Tool for Social and Individual Change; 9: Women and Chronic Renal Failure: Some Neglected Issues; 10: Toward a Model of Factors Influencing the Hiring of Women with a History of Breast Cancer; 11: Like Other Women: Perspectives of Mothers with Physical Disabilities

Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-88738-017-4 / 0887380174
ISBN-13	978-0-88738-017-4 / 9780887380174
Zustand	Neuware