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Pride against prejudice: a personal politics of disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Women's Press
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Deals with the nature of prejudice against disabled people, and challenges the reality of being different. Covers current and historical debates on the quality of disabled people's lives; the way disability is represented within Western culture; institutionalisation and independence; feminist research and community care; and the politics of the disability movement.
'Us' and 'them'? Feminist research, community care and disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 33, Winter 1991, pp.22-39.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Feminist research on community care is concerned with women's position in the family. Such research has failed to take on the reality and the interests of those groups of people who receive 'care'. This had led some feminists to conclude that non-sexist forms of community care are impossible and to advocate new forms of institutional care as an alternative. Disabled people experience such research as oppressive and alienating. Research which incorporated the subjective reality of disabled people would ask different questions but, although rejecting institutional care, would still support feminism's rejection of the way that 'community care' too often means 'family care'.