Women With Disabilities: Found Voices

by Willmuth; Mary

• ISBN13: 9781560244776
• ISBN10: 1560244771
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-03-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This innovative book was written by women with disabilities and women professionals who work with persons with disabilities. It covers many concerns about life with a disability and issues related to disability and psychotherapy. The authors represent a variety of disabilities, ethnicities, sexualities, and politics. This diversity of experience and perspective forces readers to grapple with contradictions, paradox, and their own preconceptions about disabilities and women. These women writers reveal, in deeply personal, closely technical, and sometimes theoretical terms, how they have coped with the contradictions of being women, of being members of varied colors and classes, and having bodies that don't "fit." Readers will be fascinated by the illuminating depth and breadth of experience expressed by the authors.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Celebration of the Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act	p. 7
Coming Out in Voices	p. 9
Survival	p. 19
Double Bind Messages: The Effects of Attitude Towards Disability on Therapy	p. 29
The Prize: Disability, Parenthood, and Adoption	p. 43
Women Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind as Psychotherapy Clients: A Personal and Professional Perspective	p. 55
The Common Agenda Between Old Women, Women with Disabilities and All Women	p. 65
Looking Through the Mirror of Disability: Transference and Countertransference Issues with Therapists Who Are Disabled	p. 79
Women and Physical Distinction: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Intervention	p. 91
An Account of the Search of a Woman Who Is Verbally Impaired for Augmentative Devices to End Her Silence	p. 105
What We Know About Women's Technology Use, Avoidance, and Abandonment	p. 117
An Open Letter to Health and Mental Health Care Professionals from a Survivor of Sexual Exploitation	p. 133
Sexually Abused Women with Mental Retardation: Hidden Victims, Absent Resources	p. 139
Further Labeling Within the Category of Disability Due to Chemical Dependency: Borderline Personality Disorder	p. 153
Another Strand of Our Diversity: Some Thoughts from a Feminist Therapist with Severe Chronic Illness	p. 159
Environmental Illness/Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Invisible Disabilities	p. 171
Disability in Female Immigrants with Ritually Inflicted Genital Mutilation	p. 187
Found Voices: Women, Disability and Cultural Transformation	p. 195
Surviving Salem with a movement disorder and several witches' tits	p. 211
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