Women with Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics.

Abstract

1. On Embodiment: A Case Study of Congenital Limb Deficiency in - American Culture - Gelya Frank 2. Sex Roles and Culture: Social and Personal Reactions to Breast Cancer - Beth E. Meyerowitz. Shelley Chaiken, and Laura K. Clark 3. In Search of a Heroine: Images of Women with Disabilities in Fiction and Drama - Deborah Kent 4. The Construction of Gender and Disability in Early Attachment - Adrienne Harris and Dana Wideman 5. Daughters with Disabilities: Defective Women or Minority Women? - Harilyn Rousso 6. Friendship and Fairness: How Disability Affects Friendship Between Women - Berenice Fisher and Roberta Galler 7. Disability and Ethnicity in Conflict: A Study in Transformation - Marilynn J. Phillips 8. Never-Married Old Women and Disability: A Majority Experience - Barbara Levy Simon 9. Women, Work, and Disability: Opportunities and Challenges - Nancy Felipe Russo and Mary A. Jansen 10. Disabled Women and Public Policies for Income Support - Nancy R. Mudrick 11. Autonomy as a Different Voice: Women, Disabilities, and Decision Making - Joanna K. Weinberg 12. Shared Dreams: A Left Perspective on Disability Rights and Reproductive Rights - Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine 13. Smashing Icons: Disabled Women and the Disability and Women's Movements - Marian Blackwell-Stratton, Mary Lou Breslin, and Arlene Byrnne Mayerson Epilogue: Research and Politics to Come - Adrienne Asch and Michelle Fine