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Virtual Activists? Women and the Making of Identities of Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Helen Meekosha
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Abstract

This article examines the rise of a feminist engagement with the disability rights movement. Three realms of social being—individual, society, and the state—interact in the making of the identities of disability. The emergence of Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA), suggests the ways women with disabilities come to identify with an autonomous women's group and the ways in which the particular forms of our activisms are produced.

Type
Feminism and Disability II
Information
Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and Disability, Part 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 67 - 88
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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