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Article: Disabled women's lives. (Women With Disabilities).
- Article from:
- Women in Action
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
- Author:
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Researching disability as an ally, and not a stranger, involves a personal involvement on my part, a questioning of my own asthmatic, fibromyalgic, but by my own definition, non-disabled self. It also involves an exchange of stories.
Disability issues, like feminist issues, stem from common roots of prejudice, discrimination and oppression, where the personal becomes political and, when talking to disabled women, the borders and divisions start to blur around the shape of a complex identity.
Most research on disability have been carried out by non-disabled researchers acting as experts, trying to promote measures they think are best for people with ...