Women and Disability: The Double Handicap — When Social Roles Become Barriers
What looks like an individual limitation can sometimes reveal a much larger institutional design.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Women and Disability: The Double Handicap, edited by Mary Jo Deegan and Nancy A. Brooks, is a 1985 collection examining the social, economic, psychological, and institutional experiences of physically disabled women.
Using the collection as our lens, this investigation explores how gender expectations and disability stigma can interact with employment systems, rehabilitation programs, public benefits, medicine…
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