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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Feminist disability"”.
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Navigating Advocacy as a Disabled Woman: A Qualitative Study of Gender and Disability in Pakistan
… physical and sensory disabilities. Drawing on Feminist Disability Studies and Global South feminist scholarship, it explores how disabled women define advocacy, how they carry it out in everyday life, and how gendered and socio-cultural conditions shape these practices. Based on semi-structured …
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“I’m the only one that knows what I can and can’t do.”: Shaping identities through disability accommodation discussions
… people with disabilities have when disclosing disability in the workplace for accommodations and how those experiences influenced identity formation. Utilizing a feminist disability theory framework, this project involved using semi-structured interviews with 13 people with cognitive and …
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Subjecting The Unruly Body: Staring, Surveillance, And The Politics Of (In)Visibility
Contemporary feminist disability studies, a field pioneered by scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, offers a framework to reconsider the constructions of normality and deviance, to instead place disability at the center of human experience, rather than relegate it to the margin. As she argues in her …
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From invisible to visible : women’s accounts of continuous glucose monitoring with Type 1 diabetes : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Psychology) at Massey University
… neoliberal ableism). Using a critical feminist disability framework underpinned by constructionist relativism, this study explored women with T1D’s embodied experiences managing glucose levels and daily living with a CGM. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 women aged …
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Educators’ Perceptions of Restorative Justice, Care, Inclusion, and Disability: A Phen[women]ological Study
… to restorative justice practices. Through a feminist disability studies lens, the focus of this a phen[women]ological study of the lived experiences of six educators from two different schools in Illinois and their perceptions of restorative justice, care, inclusion, and disability was to …
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The representation of disabled women in Anglo American advertising : examining how cultural disability tropes impact on the subjective wellbeing of disabled women
… advertisements (produced post-2000), from a feminist disability studies perspective. From my application of textual and discourse analyses to nine advertisements featuring women with mobility impairment, mental health issues or visual impairment and gathering of data on how a sample of women …
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Voices from the periphery : a narrative study of the experiences of sexuality of disabled women in Zimbabwe
… concepts under an overarching critical feminist disability studies lens. The study sought to explore within an African context, the experiences of sexuality of 16 disabled women in Zimbabwe by using a narrative methodology. The Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method was used to …
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On Our Terms: Exploring Lived Experience Advocacy Movements to End Homelessness in Canada
… and theoretical framework, and informed by feminist, disability justice, Indigenous, queer, and lived experience scholarship, the analysis presented in this dissertation traces how everyday experiences of lived experts are coordinated against institutional processes and power relations. …
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Rhetoric, Disability, and Prenatal Testing: Down Syndrome as an Object of Discourse
This project considers how disability studies and rhetorical studies—specifically the area of medical rhetoric—might usefully inform one another. In particular, this project examines prenatal testing for Down syndrome as a rhetorical situation that initiates and circulates many different discourses …
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Mad or Uncontrollable? Reading Female Madness in Three Gothic Texts
… employs comparative close reading framed by disability studies to analyze representations of female madness in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, and Isabel Allende’s “If You Touched My Heart.” Drawing on theories of socially constructed disability, it argues that …