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Perception and Portrayal of Women with Disabilities: Remapping their Identity

Perception and Portrayal of Women with Disabilities: Remapping their Identity

$48.00
Author:Edited by Ranjita Dawn
ISBN 13:9789386722768
Year:2017
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology/Women Studies

About the Book

The book provides a common platform to explore various critical issues concerning persons with disabilities in general and women with disabilities in specific in a single form. It includes papers of people directly associated with various Institutes working for persons with disabilities which authenticate the various problems highlighted. It addresses from affective relationships forged by the disabled women in accordance with or challenging the normative construction of their identities as disabled women living in families, current laws and policies pertaining to marriage and disabled people and its applicability to women with "all" kinds of disability, denial in the opportunities for education, training and choice for livelihood for women with disability to representations of gendered disability in school textbooks and the provisions of CSR under the new Companies Act and how it can contribute, accelerate to uplift the disability sector in India.