Living the Edges

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781771330152

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.<span class="copy">This important and ground-breaking collection brings &#10;together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both &#10;physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the &#10;societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social &#10;attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility. They bring to light&#10; the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are &#10;women, and through ableism, because they have disabilities. For them, &#10;the personal is definitely political. While society traditionally views &#10;having a disability as &#8220;weakness&#8221; and that women are the &#8220;weaker&#8221; sex, &#10;this collection points to the strength, persistence, and resilience of &#10;disabled women living the edges.</span>