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Bigger than the sky: disabled women on parenting
- Editors:
- WATES Michele, JADE Rowen
- Publisher:
- Women's Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 202p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This anthology challenges rigid, limiting views of what it means to be a disabled woman, and of what a parent is and does. Disabled women describe having to fight for the right to become pregnant, the pleasure of teaching children the benefits of having a "different" mother; and the delight of involving themselves in a child's life. Whether it be a birth mother, an adoptive parent, a godparent, a friend, or a woman who has made a positive choice not to become a parent, these disabled women are asserting their right to explore the diversity of experience.
Personal and perplexing: feminist disability politics evaluated
- Author:
- SHELDON Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(5), September 1999, pp.643-657.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Recent critiques of the social model of disability have advocated a move towards a so-called feminist emphasis on the individual experiences of disability and impairment. This article argues that such an approach represents a very narrow view of feminism and its potential contribution to disability theory. If further suggests that less individualistic approaches offer a more effective way forward for disabled people, women and people from oppressed groups. It is proposed that only by moving beyond descriptive accounts of personal experiences can disabled people, women and other oppressed people recognise their commonalities, forge coalitions, and make society a better place for all its citizens.
Anti-discrimination legislation review
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Cabinet Office. Better Regulation Task Force
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Better Regulation Task Force
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review of the regulations and administrative procedures surrounding anti-discrimination legislation.
Community care, ideology and social policy
- Author:
- COWEN Harry
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 262p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hemel Hempstead
Offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the shifts in political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century. Includes chapters on: the history of community care; health services and community care policy; social services, community care and the market; older people and community care; disabled people; mental health, homelessness and housing policies; women and community care; black and minority ethnic groups; and citizenship, participation and community care.