Disabled Women: Recomended Web Resources
A few years ago during the highs of the dot.com rush, there were numerous sites that covered issues concerning women with disabilities from various points of view. Now, it is more difficult to find sites that are regularly updated or have substantive materials. So, a few of us at DisabilityWorld did a search over the last month and have listed the most interesting of what we found. We left out a lot of sites that had outdated material, some that had only local information and others that were impossible to navigate. Please let us know if we missed any of your favorite sites.
Disability Feminist Resources
www.wwda.org.au
Still the mother lode, produced by Women with Disabilities of Australia, featuring an amazing range of papers and newsletters from a feminist point of view, replete with "oz" attitude. One of the latest entries, by Helen Meekosha, "Drifting Down the Gulf Stream: Navigating the Culture of Disability Studies," is an in-depth critique of the British and American influences on an emerging Australian approach to disability studies.
www.centerwomenpolicy.org/reportscategory.cfm?ProgramID=9
Progressive U.S. based feminist-centered policy and advocacy center, integrally inclusive of disability issues. Features print, pdf and word versions of three important treatises: "Reshaping, Rethinking, Redefining Feminist Disability Studies," by Rosemarie Garland-Thompson (2001); "Strong Proud Sisters: Girls & Young Women with Disabilities," by Harilyn Rousso (2001); and "Violence and Disabled Women," by Barbara Waxman Fiduccia & Leslie Wolfe (1999)
International
www.dpi.org/resources/topics-women.htm
Weekly selection of articles posted by Disabled people's International
www.fire.or.cr/disabilities/notas/dis-map.htm
Array of interesting materials produced in audio and print formats for Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) under guidance of disability-feminist Laura Hershey
Africa
www.disability.dk/site/viewdoc.php?doc_id=611
A 2002 report of an African Women's network formed by disabled women from 13 African countries
www.womensnet.org.za/hr/dpsa.htm
Describes Disabled Women's Development Program of South Africa
www.mrc.ac.za/mrcnews/april2001/free.htm
Medical Research Council of South Africa report of a collaborative participatory action research project with disabled women
www.mrc.ac.za/supercourse/lecture/lec1301/013.htm
Medical Research Council of South Africa study focused on health of women with disabilities
www.africapulse.org.za/index.php?action=viewarticle&articleid=929
2003 article on marginalization of disabled women in Namibia
Asia
www.worldenable.net/wadbangkok2003
Recommendations and final report of 2003 UN Asia & Pacific Regional Workshops on Women and Disability, held in August & October in Bangkok
Europe
www.edf.women.org.uk/case.htm#top
Presentation of "The Case for Disabled Women: Summary of the Current Situation of Women with Disabilities in Europe," by Ana Pelaez, member, Women's Commission, presented 18 February 2004 to European Parliament; followed by presentation of "Disabled Women-NonDisabled Women: Strategies for Action within the European Context," by Lydia La Riviere
www.independentliving.org/docs1/iglesiasetal/1998.html
European Union sponsored study of "Violence and Disabled Women" in four countries: Denmark, Germany, Spain and Sweden. Has received little exposure beyond Europe, but has valuable information and commentaries.
www.edfwomen.org/news
Report of a 2003 meeting of the European Disability Forum, held in Warsaw, that adopted a resolution on the Human Rights of Disabled Women and girls, and mothers of disabled children
www.equalityni.org/whatsnew/archiveindiv.cfm?StoryID=302
2003 Research report on "Disabled Women in Northern Ireland: Situation, Experience and Identity" published by the Equality Commission of Northern Ireland. This is one of the Commission's "Identity Report" series and others are "Black & Minority Disabled Persons in Northern Ireland" and "Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Disabled Persons in Britain."
www.geocities.com/mad_chicks_uk
Launching a new movement in London on November 27, 2004, focusing on issues specific to women mental health service users. Contact point is Esther Leslie, School of English and Humanities, Birbeck, email madchicks@hotmail.com
www.kindermedhandicap.dk/summary%20english.htm
Site of Danish Women with Disabilities
Canada
www.dawn.thot.net
Canadian based feminist cross-disability organization, regularly updated with news of organizations, research, projects, mostly in North America but with multi-cultural emphasis, e.g., First Nation perspectives
www.nald.ca/cclow/search/search_res.asp?s=subject&q=22
Series of studies about disabled women produced by Tanis Doe, Diane Driedger and April D'Aubin, posted on the website of Canada's National Adult Literature Database
www.dsq-sds.org/_arhelos_html/2004/summer/dsq_sum04_crooks.html
Article by Valerie Crooks in Disability Studies Quarterly on "Income Assistance and Women with Disabilities in Ontario, Canada"
USA
www.dwu.org
U.S. based Deaf Women United, annual conference, regular newsletter, lots of useful links
www.bcm.edu/crowd
Houston based Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Research on Women with Disabilities. Some interesting new material emanating from 2003 symposium on Improving Health & Wellness.
http://nursing.villanova.edu/wwdies/welcome.htm
University research project (with support of Bristol-Myers Squibb) covering disabled women and barriers to health care, aging, parenting, breast health, rights and resources
www.4women.gov/wwd/index.htm
Kept hearing about how great this site was, so we were surprised to find an oddly medical presentation of information by disability category. By oddly, we mean it covers Bulimia Nervosa but not blindness, Panic Disorder but not paraplegia, Dissociative Disorder but not deafness, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders but not developmental disabilities etc. Admittedly, though, it was fun to check out Sexuality and find "The New Freedom Initiative" listed.
www.kidsource.com/NICHY/girl-disability1.html
In-depth 5 part article plus recommended resources on "Having a daughter with a disability"
www.disabledparents.net
Not a site aimed specifically at women, but most materials written by or about mothers with disabilities
www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/women/start.htm
The data-packed U.S. National Science Foundation's 2004 edition of Women, Minorities and People with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
www.nowfoundation.org/issues/disability/forum2003/102403forum.html
Short report of 2003 forum of Now Foundation and American Association of People with Disabilities on "Linking Arms for Equality & Justice for All"
www.notdeadyet.org
Founded in 1996 to alert disability community and public that Jack Kevorkian was mainly assisting the suicides of disabled women with non-terminal conditions; now taking actions in over 30 states in opposition to the suicide-euthanasia movement.
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