Women With Disabilities

Found Voices

Mary Willmuth, Lillian Holcomb

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317952824
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Gender & The Law
• Index: Law

Here is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of women and disability. This innovative book was written by women with disabilities and women professionals who work with persons with disabilities. Women With Disabilities covers many concerns about life with a disability and issues related to disability and psychotherapy.The authors represent a variety of disabilities, ethnicities, sexualities, and politics. This diversity of experience and perspective forces readers to grapple with contradictions, paradox, and their own preconceptions about disabilities and women. These women writers reveal, in deeply personal, closely technical, and sometimes theoretical terms, how they have coped with the contradictions of being women, of being members of varied colors and classes, and having bodies that don't "fit."Women With Disabilities provides a wealth of information for psychologists, social workers, feminist therapists, and counselors working in rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation, and mental health. It covers a variety of subjects, including transference and countertransference, spinal cord injury, visual impairment, and chronic illness. Some specific topics covered include:

• therapy issues for therapists working with women with disabilities
• parenthood and disability
• use of assistive technology by women with disabilities
• sexual exploitation of women with disabilities
• women's responses to disability at different points in the life cycleReaders will be fascinated by the illuminating depth and breadth of experience expressed by the authors. Voices of rebellion, activism, and resistance sparkle across these pages. Women With Disabilities is an invitation for theoretical, therapeutic, and political coalition building to those with--and without--disabilities.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• The Celebration of the Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Coming Out in Voices
• Survival
• Double Bind Messages: The Effects of Attitude Towards Disability on Therapy
• The Prize: Disability, Parenthood, and Adoption
• Women Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind as Psychotherapy Clients: A Personal and Professional Perspective
• The Common Agenda Between Old Women, Women with Disabilities and All Women
• Looking Through the Mirror of Disability: Transference and Countertransference Issues with Therapists Who Are Disabled
• Women and Physical Distinction: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Intervention
• An Account of the Search of a Woman Who Is Verbally Impaired for Augmentative Devices to End Her Silence
• What We Know About Women's Technology Use, Avoidance, and Abandonment
• An Open Letter to Health and Mental Health Care Professionals from a Survivor of Sexual Exploitation
• Sexually Abused Women with Mental Retardation: Hidden Victims, Absent Resources
• Further Labeling Within the Category of Disability Due to Chemical Dependency: Borderline Personality Disorder
• Another Strand of Our Diversity: Some Thoughts from a Feminist Therapist with Severe Chronic Illness
• Environmental Illness/Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Invisible Disabilities
• Disability in Female Immigrants with Ritually Inflicted Genital Mutilation
• Found Voices: Women, Disability and Cultural Transformation
• SURVIVING SALEM with a movement disorder and several witches' tits