Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power

Asha Hans is former Professor of Political Science, and Founder Director, School of Women's Studies, Utkal University, India.

This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society focusing on the experiences of women and their interactions with family, society and medical and legal institutions.

Introduction: Gendering the Disability Framework Part I: Disability: A Gendered Problematic And Conceptualization 1. Gendered Perspective of Disability Studies 2. Women with Disabilities: How Do They Fare in Our Society? 3. Women with Psychosocial Disabilities: Shifting the Lens from Medical to Social Part II: Human Experiences And Agency 4. I Feel Normal Inside. Outside, My Body Isn't! 5. What is the Intersection between Oppression of Women and Psychiatric Oppression? 6. Tale of Married Women With Disabilities: An Oxymoron Reality 7. A Disabled Mother's Journey in Raising her Child 8. Developmental Disability and the Family: Autism Spectrum Disorder in Urban India Part III: Toward Nondiscriminatory Gendered Strategies 9. Yes, Girls and Women with Disabilities Do Math! An Intersectionality Analysis 10. Gendered Constructions of Work and Disability in Contemporary India: Discursive and Empirical Perspectives 11. Legal Capacity and Civil Political Rights for People With Psychosocial Disabilities Epilogue: Transforming Invisibilities and Obscure Directions