Women and Disability: The Double Handicap

by Mary Jo Deegan

Overview

The special needs of women with disabilities have been disregarded in a wide variety of vital areas. Issues pertain to women as wives and mothers. Studies of the effects on female sexuality of such conditions as renal disease and diabetes are lacking, though the sexual functioning of men with these diseases has been researched. On the economic front, the Federal-State Vocational Rehabilitation system and the regulations concerning disability benefits under Social Security provide less adequately for women than for men. Hopefully, this volume will raise the consciousness of its readers to the special status of women with disabilities as a minority group experiences multiple sources of discriminations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887380174
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1984
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mary Jo Deegan is professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the author of Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, winner of a Choice Outstanding Book Award, and Self, War, and Society and editor of Essays in Social Psychology and On Art, Labor, and Religion.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction Women and Disability: The Double Handicap; 2: Disabled Women: Sexism without the Pedestal; 3: The Invisible Isolation of Deaf Women: Its Effect on Social Awareness; 4: Multiple Minority Groups: A Case Study of Physically Disabled Women; 5: Sex Role Attitudes and Role Reorganization in Spinal Cord Injured Women; 6: Benefits for the Disabled: How Beneficial for Women?; 7: Assertiveness Training for Women with Visual Impairments; 8: A Peer Counseling Training Program for Disabled Women: A Tool for Social and Individual Change; 9: Women and Chronic Renal Failure: Some Neglected Issues; 10: Toward a Model of Factors Influencing the Hiring of Women with a History of Breast Cancer; 11: Like Other Women: Perspectives of Mothers with Physical Disabilities