Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader

by Diane Driedger (Editor)

Overview

This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility. They bring to light the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are women, and through ableism, because they have disabilities. For them, the personal is definitely political. While society traditionally views having a disability as “weakness” and that women are the “weaker” sex, this collection points to the strength, persistence, and resilience of disabled women living the edges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926708324
Publisher:	Inanna Publications
Publication date:	11/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Diane Driedger has written extensively about the issues of women and people with disabilities over the past 30 years. Her book The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples’ International was published in 1989. She has co-edited two international anthologies by disabled women and, most recently, co-edited with Michelle Owen, Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives (2008). Diane is an educator, administrator, activist, a visual artist and poet, and holds a Ph.D. in Edu-cation. She lives in Winnipeg.
Diane Driedger has written extensively about the issues of women and people with disabilities over the past 30 years. Her book The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples’ International was published in 1989. She has co-edited two international anthologies by disabled women and, most recently, co-edited with Michelle Owen, Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives (2008). Diane is an educator, administrator, activist, a visual artist and poet, and holds a Ph.D. in Edu-cation. She lives in Winnipeg.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Diane Driedger

I. Who We Are on the Edges

Must Disability Always Be Visible? The Meaning of Disability for Women
Sharon Dale Stone

A Longer Journey of Reflexivity: Becoming a Domesticated Academic
Laura Hockman

“Self-Portrait with Bandaged Breast (After Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear)”
Diane Driedger 

Proliferation
Diane Driedger

Medication Reaction
Diane Driedger

Radiation
Diane Driedger 

Living on the Edges
Charlotte Caron and Gail Christy 

Cry Not Crazy Lady
Marie Annharte Baker

“Post-Kelly Re: Constructed Reality”
Kelly-Jo Dorvault 

Arthritic Dreams ii
Renee Norman

Feminism, Disability and Transcendence of the Body
Susan Wendell

“Untitled Painting”
Anjali Dookeran

Black Thread Around
Marie Annharte Baker

II. Naming the Edges: Barriers

Margins Are Not For Cowards
Cheryl Gibson

“Me, Myself and I”
Winsom 

Triple Jeopardy: Native Women with Disabilities
Doreen Demas 

Coming Out of Two Closets
Jane Field

Performing My Leaky Body
Julie Devaney 

To Be Or Not to Be? Whose Question Is It, Anyway? Two Women with Disabilities Discuss the Right to Assisted Suicide
Tanis Doe and Barbara Ladouceur 

A Delicate Balance: Chronic Conditions and Workspace
Nancy E. Hansen 

Living Poorly: Disabled Women on Income Support
Sally A. Kimpson

Disability Diss Away
Marie Annharte Baker 

The Geography of Oppression
Joy Asham

III. Violence on the Edges

An Intersectional Perspective on Violence: A New Response
Maria Barile

undr the dislexic tree
Alexandra Pasian

“Have You Experienced Violence or Abuse?”: Talking with Girls and Young Women with Disabilities
Michelle Owen

When Bad Things Happen: Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Other Mistreatments Against Manitoba Women with Intellectual Disabilities
The Association for Community Living-Manitoba

“Untitled Woodcut”
Anjali Dookeran

Lions
Joanna M. Weston 

IV. With Us on the Edges: Relationships and Sexuality

New Reproductive Technology: My Personal and Political Dichotomy
Maria Barile 

Deaf-Mute?
Jancis M. Andrews

Disability and Relationships
Tracy Odell

Marriage-able? Cultural Perspectives of Women with Disabilities of South Asian Origin
Lynda Nancoo

“The Critical Woman and the Space Cadet”
Carrie R. Cardwell

“You think I want to make fuck with you”: Travelling with a Disability or Two
Milana Todoroff 

Access-Sex Series
Kyla Harris and Sarah Murray

V. Challenging the Edges

When the Body Protests: New Forms of Activism
Diane Driedger

Creating Community Across Disability and Difference
Carla Rice, Hilde Zitzelsberger, Wendy Porch and Esther Ignagni 

Walking a Woman’s Path: Women with Intellectual Disabilities
The Women’s Group, Community Living-Winnipeg

The First Step Is To Be Noticed
Dianne Pothier

Art, Sticks and Politics
Nancy E. Hansen and Diane Driedger 

“Untitled Drawing”
Anjali Dookeran 

The Freedom Tour Documentary: An Experiment in Inclusive Filmaking
Josée Boulanger, Susie Wieszmann and Valerie Wolbert

The Disabled Women’s Movement: From Where Have We Come?
Pat Israel and Fran Odette 

Leadership, Partnership and Networking: A Way Forward for the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada
Bonnie Brayton 

Contributor Notes