Women and girls with disabilities find themselves constantly having
to deal with multiple, intersectional discrimination due to both
their gender and their disability, as well as social conditioning.
Indeed, the intersection made up of factors such as race, ethnic
origin, social background, cultural substrate, age, sexual
orientation, nationality, religion, gender, disability, status as
refugee or migrant and others besides, has a multiplying effect
that increases discrimination yet further. Where conditions are
equal, women with disabilities do not enjoy equal opportunities in
terms of their participation in all aspects of society; rather,
they are all too often excluded, amongst others from education,
employment, access to poverty reduction programmes, from taking
part in political and public lives and, moreover, some legislative
deeds actually prevent them from making decisions regarding their
own lives, also as regards sexual and reproductive rights. History,
attitudes and prejudices of the societies to which we belong,
including of families, have created and continue to feed into a
negative stereotypical image of women and girls with disabilities,
thereby helping further isolate and marginalise them yet more. Very
often, they are also ignored by information media and, when they do
gain media attention, the approach tends to considers them from the
perspective of medical-assistance needs, silencing their abilities
and valuable contribution to the society in which they live. The
book seeks to pay the right attention to the condition of women
with disabilities, offering points for reflection, also on the
different, often invisible, cultural and social undertones that
continue today to feed into prejudicial stereotypes.
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