This section focuses on issues such as political participation; welfare, Social Security and other benefits; support options and service provision; poverty; housing and urban environments as well as other articles on various topics related to public policy. Adler, M. (1993). Disability among women on AFDC: An issue revisited. Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary…

Motherhood, parenting, and reproductive rights are diverse subjects but interconnected, especially for women with disabilities. In this section, we take into account of different viewpoints and arguments around the moral dilemmas between disability rights and women’s rights, especially concerning controversial subjects such as bioethics, selective abortion and genetic testing. The issue of motherhood and parenting…

This section reviews topics concerning women and mental health and/or mental illness. Included are sources on the perspectives of women on “madness” and serious mental illness, depression, self-esteem, psychological adjustment to disabilities and impairments, the affects of postpartum depression on mothers, the unique needs of women’s mental health as well as the needs of women…

This section reviews laws and regulations and their application to inclusive postsecondary education. This includes resources and reviews concerning the new Higher Education Opportunity Act, the ADA, IDEA, Section 504 and other international laws and legislation. Abram, S. (2003). The Americans with Disabilities Act in higher education: The plight of disabled faculty. Journal of Law…

The resources included here include the increasing and varied experiences and perspectives of women with disabilities on a global perspective and cover a broad range of issues. Abu-Habib, L. (1997). Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East. Oxford, UK: Oxfam Publishing. This book examines the situation of women with various types of disability…

This section is specific to students with intellectual disabilities and access to and utilization of postsecondary educational opportunities. Also included are interrelated resources including parent perspectives, information on legislation specific to students with intellectual disabilities, and many others. Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD). (2008, September 11). Disability provisions in the Higher Education Opportunity…

The health needs of women with disabilities have been ignored in the past, but that no longer seems to be true. The resources included here cover interrelated topics such as health and aging and health care access/barriers for women with different disabilities as well as articles concerning adjustment to disabilities such as traumatic brain injury…

This section focuses on the interdisciplinary field of Feminist Disability Studies. Feminist Disability Studies begins with the assumption that disability is always inextricably linked to other social markers, such as gender, race, sexuality, and social class. Issues explored within Feminist Disability Studies are wide-ranging and span diverse disciplinary and interdisciplinary locations. Some of the topics…

Most of what is included here explores the discrimination against women with disabilities in employment in general, and much of it covers women with physical or sensory disabilities. But also included are articles concerning the affect of disability (whether a child’s or a mother’s) on work participation; an increasing amount of international perspectives of women…

While all students, males and females, with and without disabilities, are subject to sex-biased assumptions in most schools and curricula, research seems to indicate that sex-role stereotyping may be even more pervasive when students have disabilities. This appears to hold true for all levels of education. The resources listed in this section address the education…