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Disabled Women: An Excluded Agenda of Indian Feminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Anita Ghai
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Abstract

My purpose in this essay is to locate disabled women within the women's movement as well as the disability movement in India. While foregrounding the existential realities for disabled women in the Indian scene, I underscore the reasons for their absence from the agenda of Indian feminism. I conclude by reflecting on the possibilities of inclusion within Indian feminist thought.

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Feminism and Disability II
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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and Disability, Part 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 49 - 66
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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