Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader: A Disabled Women's Reader

by Diane Driedger (Editor)

Overview

<More than a decade after the publication of Living the Edges: A Disabled Woman’s Reader, the lives of women with disabilities have not changed much. Still Living the Edges provides a timely follow-up that traces the ways disabled women are still on the edges, whether that be on the cutting edge, being pushed to the edges of society, or challenging the edges—the barriers in their way. This collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental, from nations such as Canada, the United States, Australia, Russia, the United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe. Through articles, poetry, essays, and visual art, disabled women share their experiences with employment, relationships, body image, sexuality and family life, society’s attitudes, and physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. In their own voices, they explore their identity as women with disabilities, showcasing how they continue to challenge the physical and attitudinal barriers that force them to the edges of society and instead place themselves at the centre of new and emerging narratives about disability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771338349
Publisher:	Inanna Publications
Publication date:	09/24/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	468
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Diane Driedger has been involved in the disability rights movement at the local, national and international levels for 40 years, with organizations such as Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI), the DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada, and Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD). She has published ten books, including four anthologies by women with disabilities, and The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples’ International (1989). She is also a poet and visual artist. Her most recent poetry book is Red With Living (2016). Diane is Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Diane Driedger has been involved in the disability rights movement at the local, national and international levels for 40 years, with organizations such as Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI), the DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada, and Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD). She has published ten books, including four anthologies by women with disabilities, and The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples’ International (1989). She is also a poet and visual artist. Her most recent poetry book is Red With Living (2016). Diane is Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Table of Contents

Introduction- Diane Driedger
<h4>Who We are on the Edges</h4>
Deaf Out Loud – Joanna Hawkins
Pink Glitter Canes, and Red Matte Lips – Megan Linton
Invalid, Dissing  ( two poems) – Diane Driedger
The Rat – Kelley Jo Burke
Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo (essay and artwork) – Charlene Du Toit
Cyborgia (poem) – Hilary Brown
Another Same Day – Alessia Di Virgilio
“Strong Black Women”: African American Women with Disabilities, Intersecting Identities, and Inequality – Angel Love Miles
Untitled (Mermaid), 2014, Lithograph – Jesse Turner
Chronically Ill, Critically Crip?: Revisiting the Poetry and Poetics of Dissonant Disabilities  – Emilia Nielsen
question marks (poem) – Jennifer Hammond Sebring
Granny Prowl: Indigena Disability Survivance – Annharte (Marie Baker)
Blindness Gain and the Art of Non-Visual Reading – Hannah Thompson
<h4>Naming the Edges: Barriers</h4>
Why Disabled Beauty is not an Oxymoron – Kate Grisim
Refusing to be Silent, Literally—A Reflection on the Frustration, Collaboration and Action of Two Women with Speech Disabilities – Michelle Hewitt
Chronic Illness: Grand Canyon (painting) – Diane Driedger
You Don’t Look Like You Have Dementia – Phyllis Fehr
Living Poorly: Disabled Women on Income Support – Sally Kimpson
The Wall, My Roots (Essay and Photo) – Emily Gillespie
Women with disabilities in leadership:  The challenges of patriarchy – Shanaaz Majiet and Adelene Africa
The Year of the Straw (poem) – Michelle Hewitt
Wheeling Montreal as a Disabled Woman – Laurence Parent
#F@!* Off (essay and artwork) – Denise Beckwith
No Mask (poem) – Melissa Powell
Inhabiting Borderlands: Living/Exploring Tensions in Being Both Disabled Women and Health Professionals – Susan Mahipaul and Sally Kimpson
The Plastic Shell – Madeline Terbasket
Am I Worth It? – Nancy Hansen
<h4>Relationships on the Edges</h4>
Crossing the Borderlands: Conducting Research on Disability and Motherhood in Russia – Alfiya Battalova
Everything I Needed to Learn About Social Work and Disability I Learned in the Feast House – Laura Hockman
“What Women Want”: Pacific DAWN Talks to Women with DisAbilities about Escaping Violence – Pat Kelln and Stephanie Parent
Epidemic – Ruth Enns
“Family Tendencies”: A Retrieval of Mental Illness and Family Erasure in the Early Twentieth Century – Courtney Wilder and Grace Klinefelter
“You Don’t Have to Have Neurotypical Sex” On Autism, Sexuality and Neurodiversity – Baden Gaeke Franz
Blue is Cool and Inner Richness (two paintings) – Emily Habansky
Across Breakfast You Tell Me You’d Abort A Child If You Knew It Was Disabled (poem) – Hilary Brown
Sea Bound – Elizabeth Ayers
<h4>Challenging the Edges</h4>
The Dyslexic Diary – Annika Driedger
Life as I Know It – Samantha Rayburn-Trubyk
In-Valids at Work: Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale and Me – Diane Driedger
The Disabled Women’s Movement: From Where Have We Come? – Pat Israel and Fran Odette
Convergence: DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada, 2011-2019 – Bonnie Brayton
Critical Disability Studies at the Edge of Global Development: Why Do We Need to Engage with Southern Theory? – Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Extraordinary Bodies (in an Ordinary World) – Debbie Patterson
Sick Series (photographs) – Olivia Dreisinger
Re-storying, Re-visioning, and Time Travelling: Arts-based Approaches to Understanding Disability’s Time and Place in Academia – Kelly McGillivray
Flat Positive: Exploring the Voices and Choices of Women Who Undergo Mastectomy – Joanna Rankin
The Freedom Tour Documentary: An Experiment in Inclusive Filmmaking – Josee Boulanger, Susie Weiszmann, and Valerie Wolbert
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