Women with Disabilities

Found Voices

Author: Mary E. Willmuth
Secondary Author: Lillian Holcomb
ISBN: 1560230460

Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women and disability. This innovative book was written by women with disabilities and women professionals who work with persons with disabilities. Women With Disabilities covers many concerns about life with a disability and issues related to disability and psychotherapy.The authors represent a variety of disabilities, ethnicities, sexualities, and politics. This diversity of experience and perspective forces readers to grapple with contradictions, paradox, and their own preconceptions about disabilities and women. These women writers reveal, in deeply personal, closely technical, and sometimes theoretical terms, how they have coped with the contradictions of being women, of being members of varied colors and classes, and having bodies that don't “fit.”Women With Disabilities provides a wealth of information for psychologists, social workers, feminist therapists, and counselors working in reh

Publisher: Haworth Press
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: Law / Gender & the Law, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Social Science / People with Disabilities

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Disabilities)