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 rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, and mental health. It covers a variety of subjects, including transference and countertransference, spinal cord injury, visual impairment, and chronic illness. Some specific topics covered include: therapy issues for therapists working with women with disabilities parenthood and disability use of assistive technology by women with disabilities sexual exploitation of women with disabilities women's responses to disability at different points in the life cycleReaders will be fascinated by the illuminating depth and breadth of experience expressed by the authors. Voices of rebellion, activism, and resistance sparkle across these pages. Women With Disabilities is an invitation for theoretical, therapeutic, and political coalition building to those with--and without--disabilities.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN-13
9781560230465
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95414651
Product Key Features
Author
Mary Willmuth, Lillian Holcomb
Publication Name
Women with Disabilities: Found Voices
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology
Publication Year
1994
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
211 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
340g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Lillian Holcomb, Mary Willmuth
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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