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Postmodernism, feminism and disability
- Author:
- FAWCETT B.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(4), October 1996, pp.259-267.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Disability issues are achieving increasing prominence in Great Britain and the rest of Europe. However, many of the main arguments, particularly those emphasising social barriers models of disability, are located within structuralist frameworks. This can be regarded as problematic, as poststructural and postmodern orientations challenge the basic tenets of such formulations. This article explores the making of links between modern and structural and postmodern and poststructural perspectives using a gendered analysis drawn from feminism. It then examines the applicability of the resultant analysis for disability issues, social work and research. In conclusion, it is suggested that the making of such links can enable us to accept and effectively utilise the difference and diversity, contradiction, change and fluidity without losing sight of enduring social divisions and associated oppressive responses.
Encounters with strangers: feminism and disability
- Editor:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Women's Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 234p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the ways feminism can and must acknowledge disabled women for the benefit of all. Looks at ways in which disabled women have been disempowered and rendered invisible.
Class and disability: influences on learning expectations
- Author:
- PREECE Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(2), 1996, pp.191-204.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes some findings from in-depth interviews with adults with disabilities, most of whom had strong working class connections. It places the findings in the context of feminist post-structuralist theory. Whilst the research is not directly to do with gender relationships, the theoretical framework highlights notions of difference, cultural value and meaning which play a significant role in the power relationships between dominant and subordinated groups.
Working with girls and young women in community settings
- Author:
- BATSLEER Janet
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 174p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Source book for youth workers, social workers, community workers and others involved with education outside the school for girls and young women. Tackles issues such as: sexuality, violence, racism, poverty and motherhood, the politics of disability, and cross cultural work. Also explores the prospects for alliance across professional boundaries, which will benefit girls and young women in the years to come.
Critical social policy: a reader
- Editor:
- TAYLOR David
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 251p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses key issues in social policy, representing a social relations of welfare perspective in the journal Critical Social Policy over the last 15 years. Highlights issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability and age as central to the analysis of welfare. These social relations are shown to underpin questions of need, empowerment and social citizenship. The contributors raise questions about universal and particular arguments for welfare and suggest ways in which welfare strategies may begin to overcome the traditional dichotomies between rights and needs. Argues that the social relations of welfare must be seen as mutually constituting and as the context within which strategies of inclusion and exclusion from welfare must be understood.