Women and Disability: Feature/Special Issues of Periodicals

FEATURE/SPECIAL ISSUES OF PERIODICALS

This listing includes the many different feature and special issues of periodicals concerning women and disability. Many of the articles contained in these feature issues are included throughout this bibliography under different informational categories.

Alldred, P., Crowley, H., & Rupal, R. (Eds). (2001, Summer). Women and mental health [Special issue]. Feminist Review, 68(1).

In this feature issue, the editors acknowledge the contradictory ways in which ‘mental health’ is defined both in terms of experiences and services as well as medical discourse. However this feature issue focuses “largely on the use and the provision of ‘mental health’ services and the policy issues that stem from these” (p. 1). And while primarily edited from a UK standpoint but featuring different perspectives, the UK and “its policy and service provision…(serve as) a common point of reference (p. 3).”

Banks, M. E., & Kaschak, E. (Eds.). (2003). Women with visible and invisible disabilities: Multiple intersections, multiple issues, multiple therapies, Part I [Special issue]. Women & Therapy, 26(1/2).

Banks, M. E., & Kaschak, E. (Eds.). (2003). Women with visible and invisible disabilities: Multiple intersections, multiple issues, multiple therapies, Part II [Special issue]. Women & Therapy, 26(3/4).

This two part feature issue addresses the issues faced by women with disabilities, examines the social construction of disability, and makes suggestions for the development and modification of culturally relevant therapy to meet the needs of disabled women. Written in an accessible style—often in the words of women coping with various disabilities—and with a minimum of jargon, this book provides clinical material from the perspectives of psychotherapists, clients, personal assistants, and health administrators.

 

Blackford, K., Cuthbertson, C., Odette, F., & Ticoll, M. (1993, Summer). Women and disability [Feature issue]. Canadian Woman Studies, 13(4).

The editors of this issue are feminists, most of whom have disabilities, who identify the contributors as feminist disability theorists who insist that the personal is political. The issue includes articles by women from backgrounds that vary in class, race, ethnicity, and sexual or gender orientation in order to highlight the diversity in the lives of women with disabilities. Many of the authors raise questions that challenge traditional feminist thinking (about the body, about reproductive rights, about objectification and about language, for example), while others relate personal experiences or provide information on studies conducted with women with disabilities.

Blehar, M. C., & Keita, G. P. (Eds.). (2003, March). Women and depression [Feature issue]. Journal of Affective Disorders, 74(1).

“For the second time in ten years, The Journal of Affective Disorders (JAD) devotes a special issue to the topic of women and depression. In 1993, the Journal published a special issue, titled Toward a New Psychobiology of Depression in Women, based on a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) workshop organized by Blehar. This special issue on women and depression builds on NIMH’s contribution and that of the American Psychological Association (APA). This publication comes ten years after the 1990 report by the APA Task Force on Women and Depression, titled Women and depression: Risk factors and treatment issues. That book, edited by McGrath, Keita, Strickland, and Russo was one of the first reports that focused on women’s depression.

This issue also stems from the APA’s sponsorship of an October 2000 Summit on Women and Depression. The meeting was initially conceived of by the APA as a way to update the 1990 report. But more importantly, it was brought about through a working partnership that APA forged with other sponsors – among them the Bureau of Primary Health Care/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office on Women’s Health, and NIMH. Other federal and private organizations collaborated in this undertaking in addition to some of our nation’s foremost experts across disciplines. An executive summary of the Summit is posted on the APA web site www.apa.org/pi/wpo/women&depression.pdf and the NIMH web site at www.nimh.nih.gov.” (p. 1).

Bourke, K. (Ed.). (2007). Special Issue on Gender Inequality and HIV/AIDS. Health Care for Women International, 28(8).

“This month’s issue of Health Care for Women International presents research into various aspects of how gender inequality and HIV-related stigma combine to affect girls and women. Individually and together, the articles reinforce a larger point: HIV/AIDS is both exposing and exacerbating the long-existing disadvantage and discrimination under which women live. HIV/AIDS policies and programs, across epidemics, must address this reality to be effective” (pp. 677-678).

Articles included in this feature issue include:

  • Women and HIV/AIDS in China: Gender and Vulnerability
  • Women’s Choice of Strategies for Improving Utilization of HIV/AIDS Screening Services
  • The Impact of Migration on HIV Prevention for Women: Constructing a Conceptual Framework
  • The Lived Experiences of HIV-Positive, Pregnant Women in Thailand
  • Sexual Coercion, HIV-Related Risk, and Mental Health Among Female Sex Workers in China

 

Engstrom, J. L., Sefton, M. G. S., Matheson, J., K., &. Healy, K. M. (Eds). (2005, May-June). Genomics in women’s health and midwifery [Feature issue]. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, 50(3).

This is a feature issue of the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health concerning “genomics” which is the study of the function and interactions of all the genes in the genome, rather than genetics, which is traditionally defined as the study of single genes, in women’s health and midwifery. There are many articles concerning prenatal screening. As noted in one article on newborn screening and genetic testing, “New screening techniques and diagnostic tests for genetic diseases available for newborn screening can provide information about many diseases long before they are clinically detected. However, this information creates complex questions and ethical dilemmas regarding which newborns should be tested, when testing should occur, availability and costs of tests, and how families should be counseled.” Included are a range of articles on genetics, with several concerning Down syndrome.

Feature issue on cancer and international health for women. (2006, January). Health Care for Women International, 27(1).

This special issue features articles reporting on international health for women with breast and cervical cancer.

Fine, M. (Ed.). (1993). Women with disabilities: Found voices [Feature issue]. Women & Therapy, 14(3/4).

Features a range of articles concerning issues for women with disabilities, such as the ADA, sexuality, parenthood, technology, mental health and others.

Folbre, N., Shaw, L. B., & Stark, A. (Eds.). (2005, July). Special issue on gender and aging. Feminist Economics, 11(2).

This volume focuses on gendered differences in the economic resources of the elderly and the individuals charged with meeting the day-to-day care needs of the elderly. Often the burden of care falls on women, who themselves have less access to care as they age. The introduction gives an overview of the public policy initiatives, social insurance and welfare programs, and family provisions for care that are thoroughly examined in the following contributions. The volume highlights both cross-national contrasts and common challenges to meeting the economic and care needs of the growing elderly population.

Hall, K. Q. (Ed.). (2002, Fall). Feminist Disability Studies [Special issue]. NWSA Journal, 14(3).

NWSA Journal is the official publication of the National Women’s Studies Association and publishes the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary, multicultural feminist scholarship linking feminist theory with teaching and activism. This special issue focuses on feminist Disability Studies that draws upon and challenges analyses of bodily norms, identity, accommodation, representation, and oppression in both feminism and Disability Studies. Feminist Disability Studies also provides a theoretical framework for expanding an understanding of historical and ideological connections between marginalized embodiments, and the essays included in this volume address many of these themes.

Holt, G. (Ed.). (2004, October). Women with learning disabilities and mental health [Feature issue]. Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4).

In May 2002 a conference, Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Women with Learning Disability, was held at Guy’s Hospital [UK], a joint venture between the Judith Trust and the Estia Centre, Guy’s. The aim was to enable discussion of the importance of good mental health for everyone, for good services for those who become mentally ill and for these services to be sensitive to the particular needs of women with learning disabilities.

Hughes, R. B. (Ed.). (2006, November-December). Theme issue on women and disabilities. Women’s Health Issues, 16(6).

“This theme issue on women and disabilities addresses many of the disparities between women with disabilities and women without disabilities, suggests avenues for eliminating those disparities, and contributes to the growing knowledge base on the health related issues of this largely disadvantaged and underserved population of women” (p. 283).

Articles included in this feature issue include:

  • Disability and receipt of clinical preventive services among women
    Health, preventive health care, and health care access among women with disabilities in the 1994–1995 National Health Interview Survey, Supplement on Disability
  • Health service use and outcomes among disabled Medicaid pregnant women
  • Physical activity and nutritional behaviors of women with physical disabilities: Physical, psychological, social, and environmental influences
    Improving the health and health behaviors of women aging with physical disabilities: A peer-led health promotion program
  • Associations between fracture incidence and use of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and anti-epileptic drugs in women with developmental disabilities
  • Illness perceptions and related outcomes among women with fibromyalgia syndrome
  • Diabetes care among veteran women with disability
  • Sexual assault patterns among women with and without disabilities seeking survivor services
  • An examination of depression through the lens of spinal cord injury: Comparative prevalence rates and severity in women and men
  • Stress self-management: An intervention for women with physical disabilities

Kittay, E., Silvers, S., & Wendell, S. (Eds.). (2001, Fall). Special issue: Feminism and disability. Hypatia, 16(4).

Hypatia is a journal for scholarly research concerning philosophy and women’s studies. The essays in this issue address theoretical dimensions of understanding women’s disability identity and seek to stimulate philosophical thought about these situations. Among the excellent papers offered for Hypatia’s exploration of women and disability were works with a different focus, one more concerned with concrete and practical aspects of living with disability. The second part of this double issue examines personal and political practical themes of disabled women’s lives, in both North America and other parts of the globe.

Kittay, E., Silvers, S., & Wendell, S. (Eds.). (2002). Special issue: Feminism and disability II. Hypatia, 17(3).

This is Part II of a special issue on feminism and disability. The articles in Part II have a more practical orientation. The authors, who offer perspectives on disability from India, Australia, the United States, and Canada, all bring personal experience and practical concerns to their philosophical inquiry.

Kukla, R. (Ed.). (2006, Winter). Maternal bodies [Special issue]. Hypatia, 21(1).

“…[the] essays explore maternal bodies as they are positioned in culture; differentiated; represented; valued as appropriate or inappropriate; constituted in relation to the bodies of fetuses, children, women who are not mothers, and the divine; negotiated in relationship to new technologies; sites of distinctive skills and practices; and sites of agency, responsibility, integrity, and vulnerability (p. viii).” Several essays touch on disability issues, especially Amy Mullin’s “Parents and Children: An Alternative to Selfless and Unconditional Love” and Shelley Tremain’s “Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment in Utero.”

Mowbray, C. T. (Ed.). (2003, Fall). Women and psychiatric rehabilitation practice [Special section]. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 27(2), 114-121.

“To begin to address some of the concerns about women and their psychiatric rehabilitation needs, we offer this special section on women’s issues in this edition of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. The purpose is to heighten readers’ awareness of several topics that are relevant to PSR and particularly important to women. Each of the articles in this special section describes a particular issue area, presents some promising intervention approaches, and/or makes recommendations to PSR practitioners, administrators, and researchers as to what more could be done. We hope that this special issue will be the impetus for program development, staff training, research and evaluation studies, and advocacy on behalf of women clients.”

Harding, S., & Norberg, K. (Eds.). (2005, Winter). Gender and disabilities [Special section]. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30(2).

“As luck would have it, these three splendid essays arrived independently in the journal office. We have grouped them together into this cluster titled ‘Gender and Disabilities.’ We hope you enjoy them separately and collectively as an indication of the continuing importance of feminist thinking about disabilities.”

The three articles included in this “cluster” are:

  • Other voices at the workplace: Gender, disability, and an alternative ethic of care
  • Feminist Disability Studies
  • The blind man’s Harley: White canes and gender identity in America

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Keita, G. P. (Eds.). (2003, June). Women and depression [Special section]. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 27(2).

Although women’s 2 to 1 likelihood of developing a depressive disorder is a well-established fact, research over the last decade has expanded our knowledge of risk factors and issues of treatment and service delivery. The American Psychological Association convened an interdisciplinary Summit in 2000 on Women and Depression to examine these findings and to make recommendations on future research and policy needs, and to highlight treatment implications. This special section contains five articles from the Summit addressing a range of issues, including the relationship between women’s depression and their lesser power and status in society (resulting in physical and sexual abuse and poverty), and the menstrual cycle and depression. Additionally, the special section includes articles on the rehabilitation of women with depression and treatment of depressed women in primary care settings.

For more information, the document, Summit on Women and Depression: Proceedings and Recommendations, can be accessed online at www.apa.org/pi/wpo/womendepression.pdf.

Nosek, M. (Ed.). (2001, Spring). Feature issue on The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD), Part I. Sexuality and Disability, 19(1).

Nosek, M. (Ed.). (2001, Fall). Feature issue on The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD), Part II. Sexuality and Disability, 19(3).

These two issues of Sexuality and Disability feature the final report of the National Study of Women with Physical Disabilities and a sampling of analyses that have conducted on some of the issues of concern that surfaced from that study. These articles represent the variety of types of research conducted at CROWD, including qualitative investigation, quantitative methodologies, intervention studies, and policy analyses.

Peel, E., & Thomson, M. (2009). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Health Psychology [Special issue]. Feminism & Psychology, 19(4).

“Gender has been an important and profitable lens through which the bio- and social sciences have sought to understand health, its differentials and inequalities. While health is clearly multi-factorial, gender has been recognized as an important determinant of health profiles and feminist principles of equity and inclusiveness have long been incorporated into health psychology (Brown Travis et al., 1991). Women’s health is an accepted sub-discipline in many fields and whilst men’s health remains a somewhat marginal concern (although see Courtney, 2000; Thomson, 2008), it is (generally) accepted that ‘the doing of health is a form of doing gender’ (Saltonstall, 1993: 12). This special issue aims to build upon this work by seeking to explore the value of sexuality as an axis of study in health psychology” (p. 427).

Scherer, M. J., & Dicowden, M. A. (Eds.). (2008). Feature issue: Issues Regarding Women with Disabilities. Disability & Rehabilitation, 30(3).

“The articles in this Special Issue provide an excellent perspective of the emotional and social aspects of having a disability and being female in the 21st century. To fully understand these differences, however, it is essential to acknowledge the role of women throughout history. Traditionally, women were the family and community healers offering comfort and assistance with injury, pain, childbirth and death. However, through the years, women, and especially those with disabilities, were disenfranchised and disempowered. They were often considered property and could be treated as chattel…. It is no wonder, as the authors in this issue point out, that when women become disabled their feelings of loss and vulnerability trigger much different types and levels of grief and depression than a man might experience, and this remains true today. All of the authors of the articles in this special issue focus on the need to better understand the ways males and females differ according to their life prior to disability, their reactions to disability onset, and the consequences they experience of having a disability” (p. 161).

Articles included in this special issue include:

 

  • Organizing future research and intervention efforts on the impact and effects of gender differences on disability and rehabilitation: The usefulness of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
  • Unique aspects of women’s emotional responses to disability
  • The complex array of antecedents of depression in women with physical disabilities: Implications for clinicians
  • Women with disabilities: Cultural competence in rehabilitation psychology
  • The spaces between: Partnerships between women researchers and indigenous women with disabilities

Schriner, K. F., Barnartt, S. N., & Altman, B. M. (Eds.). (1997). Disabled women and public policy: Where we’ve been, where we’re going [Special issue]. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 8(1&2).

This special issue of The Journal of Disability Policy Studies includes nine empirical and theoretical articles by scholars in disability studies, personal statements by five prominent women with disabilities who identify current issues, and book reviews. Articles cover aspects of gender and disability differences in education and occupation of adults with hearing loss; social security disability decisions; predictors of wages; social patterning of work disability among women in Canada; access to acute medical care; abuse of women with disabilities; mental health and women with disabilities; a feminist perspective on the social causes of impairment, disability, and abuse; and an overview of arenas for policy change concerning women with disabilities in developing countries.

Sinister Wisdom #39: Disability. (1989-1990). Berkeley, CA: Sinister Wisdom, Inc.

This is a 140-page collection of poetry, essays, drawings, pictures, and articles which all focus on disability. Most of the pieces are first-person accounts by lesbians who have disabilities. The women in this issue represent a variety of viewpoints and address a wide range of disability issues from a personal and a political point of view. The women who contributed to this volume have a range of disabilities such as dyslexia, severe allergies, physical disabilities, and blindness, as well as representing a range of racial, cultural, and economic diversity.

Resources of interest to lesbians with disabilities are listed in the back of the collections; these include books, periodicals, organizations, both art organizations and disability organizations.

To order this issue, go to http://www.sinisterwisdom.org/order.html

Special feature: Women and disability [Part I]. (2002, November/December). Off Our Backs, 32(11/12).

Special feature: Women and disability [Part II]. (2003, January/February). Off Our Backs, 33(1/2).

These issues illustrate that the cross section of oppressions that is created when a woman is black or a lesbian is much more mediated than the cross section of oppressions created when a woman is also disabled. In this two-part series of off our backs, our contributors share personal narratives and commentaries on what their lives as women with disabilities are like. These two issues are sold as a “Teaching Packet.”

Supporting service development and innovation [Feature issue]. (2004, October). Learning Disability Review, 9(4).

The October issue features papers concerning women with learning disabilities including: “Human Rights and the Failure of Policy to Deliver”; “Mental Health Needs of Women with Learning Disabilities”; “Understanding our Bodies, Understanding Ourselves” and “Women with Learning Disabilities and Menstruation.”

Theme: Women with disabilities. (2001). Women in Action, No. 2. Retrieved March 4, 2005 from http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia201/index.html.

Women In Action is a periodical that “covers a broad range of issues affecting women globally.” This theme issue features women with disabilities from all over the world.

Traustadottir, R. (Ed.). (2006, June). Special issue: Gender and disability. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 8(2-3).

This special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research presents scholarship on gender and disability and features a range of articles with a gender or feminist focus and represents the range of diversity within the intersection of gender and disability. Articles include:

  • Vulnerable, Exposed and Invisible: A Study of Violence and Abuse against Women with Physical Disabilities
  • Deaf Mothers, Maternal Thinking and Intersections of Gender and Ability
  • Misconception: The Experience of Pregnancy for Women with Intellectual Disabilities
  • Long-Term Illness as an Occupational-Career Interruption: Gender Differences in the Determinants and Outcomes in Sweden
  • Screened Out: Women with Disabilities and Preventive Health
  • What the Hell are You? An Intercategorical Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Disability in the Australian Body Politic
  • Disability and Gender: Reflections on Theory and Research
  • Tvang, makt og ambivalens – en studie av hvilken betydning lovreglene om bruk av makt og tvang overfor psykisk utviklingshemmede kan få i det daglige omsorgsarbeidet (Force, Power and Ambivalence – a Study of the Consequences of the Regulations in Daily Care for Intellectually Disabled People)

Welner, S. (Ed.). (1999). Women’s health and gynecological care [Special Issue]. Sexuality and Disability, 17(3).

This feature issue contains a range of articles concerning health, gynecologic care, sexuality and abuse of women with disabilities.

Women and disability [Special issue]. (1985, Spring). Resources for Feminist Research, 14(1). Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto.

This is a 110-page collection of articles, essays, poetry, book reviews and lists of resources and references around the theme “Women and Disability.” Most of the articles are first-person accounts from women who have disabilities and deal with these women’s experiences of poverty, discrimination, cultural isolation, self-image, parenting, relationships, powerlessness, and so on. There is no serious attempt in any of these articles to theorize around women with disabilities but the issue contains a wealth of information about where to find resources about women with disabilities. The issue focuses almost solely on women who have physical disabilities. A back order of this issue can be ordered at the journal’s web site: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/rfr/pages/journal.html