FEMINIST’s MOVEMENTS AND HOW THEY HAVE SIDELINED WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES-WWDs


You may find that even when the feminist movements plan for meetings and conferences, they do this in places that are not easily accessed by the disabled women; this has even made the disabled women to cry more. And also the materials that are used are only in print which makes it hard for other women who have other types of disabilities not able to follow the proceedings of such meetings and conferences. This means that there is no tape or Braille and at times even the sign language is rarely provided.
The feminist movement has both been seen to be physically inaccessible as well as ignored the challenges of women with disabilities-WWDs in a general way. Women with mental disabilities are the ones who face a lot of challenges that go unheard off or even not talked about. This has brought about a lot of comparing and constracting from the feminist with disabilities point of view, in some areas the feminist with disabilities find that the lesbian movements are more accepting when compared to the feminist movements. They claim that the lesbian movements will easily take in disabled women when compared to the non disabled feminists.

The societal attitudes that are attached to the disabled women are the source of the many stigmatizing experiences faced by the disabled women-WWDs. The society in most cases will look at the disabled women as helpless, they are treated as childlike, they are seen to be dependent, needy, victimized and also very passive. This has seen the society to be reinforcing the traditional stereotypes of women. This can be seen as a reason as to why the disabled women are excluded from the feminist movement. The non disabled feminists have severed the experience of disabled women from sisterhood in their strong effort to advance and become more powerful, more competent and also to be seen as appealing female icons on the society.

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