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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