Surviving disablist hate rape : barriers, intersectionalities and collective interventions with disabled women in the North of England (original) (raw)
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2018
This research explores the nature and impact of disability hate crime from the perspective of disabled people, victims and key informants from criminal justice and other agencies. The evidence base included two focus groups with disabled people, an online anonymous questionnaire with 83 disabled participants, narrative interviews with 12 victims of disability hate crimes and semi-structured interviews with 15 key informants. It draws on all forms of disability, impairment and conditions and contributes to the current research deficit in the field of disability hate crime. All of the participants spoke of a prevalence of targeted violence and harassment against disabled people that is cumulative and repetitive in nature. Victims reported a variety of abuse and hostility, from name-calling and verbal abuse to physical and sexual violence, harassment and damage to property. A significant minority reported experiencing a withdrawal of support or assistance from carers or family members,...
Agenda, 2015
Of the range of disabilities, intellectual disabilities are often the most complex and least understood. The effects of the disability and related negative social attitudes and perceptions combine with the pernicious effects of sexism and misogyny, so that women with these kinds of disabilities are frequently and disproportionately subject to gender-based violence (GBV). This article explores the stigmatisation that renders women with intellectual disabilities more vulnerable to victimisation from the perspective of service providers in the disability and GBV sectors. The data are taken from a larger study on GBV and access to justice for women with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities undertaken in the Western Cape, Gauteng, and KwaZulu-Natal, wherein we interviewed 58 service providers at disability and GBV organisations. In the process, service provider narratives indicated that the experiences of women with intellectual disabilities, including their vulnerability to and experiences of violence, are mediated by multiple complex social perceptions and myths. According to our findings these include the general view that people with disabilities are less valuable, cultural myths and superstitions about disability, fear and shame associated with 'disabled' sexuality, beliefs about the lack of credibility of persons with intellectual disabilities, and the tendency of persons with disabilities to internalise negative views about themselves. These myths and perceptions are not mutually exclusive, but combine and interact in complex and compound ways, often rendering the victimisation of women with intellectual disabilities invisible, or intractable. This article aims to highlight the relationship between intellectual disabilities and prevailing social attitudes as a central concern in the prevention of and responses to violence against women with intellectual disabilities.
Violence against women with disabilities
Temida, 2010
Research have shown that women with disabilities are among the most vulnerable members of our society. Also, research suggested that they are at the same or higher risk of victimization by psychological/ emotional, physical and sexual violence in comparison to women without disabilities. Often perceived as 'easy' target, they easily become victims of violence commited by strangers, but also by persons on whom they physically, emotionally or economically depend: husbands/ intimate partners, family members, friends, acquaintances, caregivers and the institution staff in which they have treatment and/or rehabilitation. Frequently, violence is repeated, while women, who are revictimized more than once, often for years, remain alone. Institutions and organizations which should offer help and support to victims of violence and crime in general, usually fail to respond effectively to needs of victims with disability. The subject of the paper is violence against women with disabilit...
Disability and Social Exclusion in the Legal Process: Women as Victims of Sexual Violence
Marwah: Jurnal Perempuan, Agama dan Jender
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VIOLENCE AND ABUSE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: EXPERIENCES, BARRIERS AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES
2000
Oschwald can be reached at (503) 232-9154, ext. 126; oschwald@ohsu.edu Laurie Powers can be reached at (503) 232-9154, ext. 104; powersl@ohsu.edu 2 VIOLENCE AND ABUSE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: EXPERIENCES, BARRIERS AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES He and I got into the verbal altercation … so he thought he would put me in my place by throwing me up on the back of the chair, then letting me hang there. I'm on a ventilator … I had already been off for an hour and a half, and I was getting rather winded. ... So he just left me hanging there, kept screaming at me, and I had to apologize to him … hardly able to breath … He really scared the hell out of me. Man with a disability Violence and abuse are serious problems for persons with disabilities, who are at greater risk than non-disabled persons (Brown, . The social context of disability, including factors such as inaccessibility, reliance on support services, poverty and isolation, has a powerful impact on individuals' increased risk for violence. Historically, individuals with disabilities have not been considered reliable reporters of abuse nor have they been given the chance to be self-directed in many domains of their life. Traditional approaches to "protecting" people with disabilities have inadvertently kept them from accessing the tools and resources needed for protecting themselves. What Do We Know? Violence against women with disabilities has received far greater attention than has violence against men with disabilities. For example, The Disabled Women's Network of Canada (Riddington, 1989) surveyed 245 women; 40% experienced abuse,
Reclaiming Womanhood: Sexuality, Violence and Women with Disabilities
transcript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 2023
This paper addresses the issue of sexuality and violence and how they are inextricably linked in women with disabilities. Perceived by the family as well as the state to be vulnerable to sexual violence in terms of assault and rape, what remains under-examined in case of women with disabilities is the violence that is committed by not regarding them as sexual beings with desires for emotional and sexual fulfilment. By depriving them of roles that are available to able-bodied women and considering them as non-sexual beings, their humanity and dignity is compromised. Drawing from the field work with women with disabilities, the paper argues that despite family support, institutional rehabilitation and government initiatives, issues of sexuality, sexual identity, companionship, and reproductive rights of disabled women are often glossed over. The paper locates female experience of disability and sexuality in the larger context of feminist debates about the female body and argues that a rights-based approach will address the needs and aspirations of disabled women. Additionally, the paper also examines specific articles of United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Persons with disabilities (UNCRPD) that acknowledge the needs and aspirations of women with disabilities and their right to have a home and family.