READING LIST: Intersectional disability & disabled women

December 2020 Notice: We are in the process of updating the resource link text to be more accessible, but due to the high number of resource entries it is taking a little time. Thank you for your patience!

Version: January 2017

• Academic resources: 208 entries
• Third sector, government and UN reports and papers: 25 entries 

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Compiled by Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, Sisters of Frida & University of Manchester

Academic Resources

1. Abu-Habib, Lina (Ed.). (1997). Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East. London: Oxfam.

2. Abu-Khalil, Jahda. (2015). Taking the world stage: disabled women at Beijing. In: Lina Abu-Habib (Ed.), Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East (pp. 67-72). London: Oxfam.

3. Addlakha, Renu. (2015). Gendered Constructions of Work and Disability in Contemporary India: Discursive and Empirical Perspectives. In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 10)

4. Al-Awabida, Najah Diab. (2016). The Disabled Woman in Syria. Al-Raida Journal, 4. Open Access

5. Annamma, Subini A. (2015). DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. Teachers College Press.

6. Arenas Conejo, Míriam. (2011). Disabled women and transnational feminisms: shifting boundaries and frontiers. Disability & Society, 26(5), 597-609. Closed Access

7. Atshan, Leila. (2015). Disability and gender at a cross-roads: a Palestinian perspective. In: Lina Abu-Habib (Ed.), Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East (pp. 53-59). London: Oxfam.

8. Artiles, Alfredo J. (2013). Untangling the Racialization of Disabilities. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 10(02), 329-347. Open Access

9. Axtell, Sara. (1999). Disability and chronic illness identity: Interviews with lesbians and bisexual women and their partners. International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, 4(1), 53-72. Closed Access

10. Banks, Martha E. (2015). Whiteness and Disability: Double Marginalization. Women & Therapy, 38(3-4), 220-231. Closed Access

11. Barclay, Jenifer L. (2014). Mothering the “Useless”: Black Motherhood, Disability, and Slavery. Women, Gender, and Families of Color, 2(2), 115-140. Closed Access

12. Barile, Maria. (2013). Individual-systemic violence: Disabled women’s standpoint. Journal of international women’s studies, 4(1), 1-14. Open Access

13. Barounis, Cynthia. (2013). Cripping Heterosexuality, Queering Able-Bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body. In: Davis J. Lennard (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed., pp. 381-397). Oxon: Routledge.

14. Basas, Carrie Griffin. (2013). The New Boys: Women with Disabilities and the Legal Profession. Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, 25(1), Art.2. Open Access

15. Baynton, Douglas C. (2013). Disability and the justification of inequality in American history. In: Davis J. Lennard (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed., pp. 33-57). London: Routledge.

16. Begum, Nasa. (1992). Disabled women and the feminist agenda. Feminist Review(40), 70-84. Closed Access

17. Begum, Nasa. (1996). General practitioners’ role in shaping disabled women’s lives. In: Colin Barnes & Geof Mercer (Eds.), Exploring the divide: Illness and disability (157-172): Disability Press Leeds. Open Access

18. Begum, Nasa. (1996). Doctor, doctor…: Disabled women’s experience of general practitioners’. In: Morris, Jenny. (Ed.) Encounters with strangers: feminism and disability (pp. 168-193). London: The Women’s Press

19. Bell, Chris. (2006). Introducing White Disability Studies: A Modest Proposal. In: Davis J. Lennard (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (2nd ed., pp. 275-282). London: Routledge.

20. Bell, Christopher M. (2011). Blackness and disability: Critical examinations and cultural interventions. (Vol. 21): LIT Verlag Münster.

21. Berberi, Tammy, & Berberi, Viktor. (2013). A Place at the Table: On Being Human in the Beauty and the Beast In: Johnson Cheu (Ed.), Diversity in Disney films: Critical Essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability (pp. 195-207): McFarland.

22. Block, Pamela. (2002). Sexuality, parenthood, and cognitive disability in Brazil. Sexuality and Disability, 20(1), 7-28. Closed Access

23. Block, Pamela, Kasnitz, Devva, Nishida, Akemi, & Pollard, Nick. (2015). Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. Springer.

24. Blum, Linda M. (2007). Mother-Blame in the Prozac Nation Raising Kids with Invisible Disabilities. Gender & Society, 21(2), 202-226. Closed Access

25. Browne, Susan E, Connors, Debra, & Stern, Nanci. (1985). With the power of each breath: A disabled women’s anthology. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press.

26. Brown, Tony N. (2003). Critical race theory speaks to the sociology of mental health: Mental health problems produced by racial stratification. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 292-301. Open Access

27. Bumiller, Kristin. (2008). Quirky citizens: Autism, gender, and reimagining disability. Signs, 33(4), 967-991. Closed Access

28. Burghardt, Madeline. (2013). Common frailty, constructed oppression: tensions and debates on the subject of vulnerability. Disability & Society, 28(4), 556-568. Closed Access

29. Butler, Ruth. (1999). Double the trouble or twice the fun? Disabled bodies in the gay community. In: Ruth Butler & Hester Parr (Eds.), Mind and body spaces: Geographies of illness, impairment and disability (pp. 203-220). London: Routledge.

30. Cameron, Elaine, Evers, Helen, Badger, Frances, & Atkin, Karl. (1989). Black old women, disability and health carers. In: Margot Jefferys (Ed.), Growing Old in the Twentieth Century, 230-248.

31. Campbell, Fiona Kumari. (2008). Exploring internalized ableism using critical race theory. Disability & Society, 23(2), 151-162. Link (open access)

32. Carlson, Licia. (2001). Cognitive ableism and disability studies: Feminist reflections on the history of mental retardation. Hypatia, 16(4), 124-146. Link (open access)

33. Carmen, Elaine (Hilberman). (1995). Inner-City Community Mental Health: The Interplay of Abuse and Race in Chronic Mentally Ill Women. In: Charles V Willie, Patricia Perri Rieker, Bernard M Kramer & Bertram S Brown (Eds.), Mental Health, Racism And Sexism (pp. 217-236): University of Pittsburgh Press.

34. Carter, Angela M. (2015). Teaching with Trauma: Trigger Warnings, Feminism, and Disability Pedagogy. Disability Studies Quarterly, 35(2). Link (open access)

35. Cermele, Jill A, Daniels, Sharon, & Anderson, Kristin L. (2001). Defining normal: Constructions of race and gender in the DSM-IV casebook. Feminism & Psychology, 11(2), 229-247. Link (open access)

36. Chakravarti, Upali. (2015). A Gendered Perspective of Disability Studies. In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 1)

37. Chapman, Chris, Carey, Allison C, & Ben-Moshe, Liat. (2014). Reconsidering confinement: interlocking locations and logics of incarceration. In: Liat Ben-Moshe, Ysanne Chapman & Alison C. Carey (Eds.), Disability incarcerated: Imprisonment and disability in the United States and Canada (pp. 3-24): Palgrave Macmillan.

38. Chib, Malini. (2015). I Feel Normal Inside. Outside, My Body Isn’t! In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 4)

39. Chouinard, Vera, & Teather, E. (1999). Disabled women’s explorations of ableist spaces. Routledge London.

40. Clare, Eli. (2001). Stolen bodies, reclaimed bodies: Disability and queerness. Public Culture, 13(3), 359-365. Link (open access)

41. Clare, Eli. (2013). Stones in my pockets, stones in my heart. In: Lennard Davis (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed., pp. 563-572). Oxon: Routledge.

42. Clare, Eli. (2015). Exile and pride: Disability, queerness, and liberation. (2nd ed.). London: Duke University Press.

43. Cooper, Charlotte. (1997). Can a Fat Woman Call Herself Disabled? Disability & Society, 12(1), 31-42. Link (closed access)

44. Corbett, Jenny. (1994). A proud label: Exploring the relationship between disability politics and gay pride. Disability and Society, 9(3), 343-357. Link (closed access)

45. Cramer, Elizabeth P, & Gilson, Stephen F. (1999). Queers and crips: Parallel identity development processes for persons with nonvisible disabilities and lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons. International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, 4(1), 23-37. Link (closed access)

46. Daley, Andrea. (2010). Being recognized, accepted, and affirmed: Self-disclosure of lesbian/queer sexuality within psychiatric and mental health service settings. Social Work in Mental Health, 8(4), 336-355. Link (closed access)

47. Davar, Bhargavi V. (2015). Legal Capacity And Civil Political Rights For People With Psychosocial Disabilities. In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 11)

48. Davis, Lennard J. (1995). Introduction: Disability, the Missing Term in the Race, Class, Gender Triad. Enforcing normalcy: Disability, deafness, and the body. (pp.1-22) Verso. Link (open access)

49. Davis, Lennard. (2013). Introduction: Disability, Normality, and Power. In: Lennard Davis (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed., pp. 1-16). Oxon: Routledge.

50. Deegan, Mary Jo. (1981). Multiple minority groups: A case study of physically disabled women. Soc. & Soc. Welfare, 8, 274. Link (open access)

51. Deegan, Mary Jo, & Brooks, Nancy A (Eds.). (1985). Women and disability: The double handicap: Transaction Publishers.

52. Dossa, Parin. (2005). Racialized bodies, disabling worlds “they [service providers] always saw me as a client, not as a worker”. Social Science & Medicine, 60(11), 2527-2536. Link (closed access)

53. Dossa, Parin. (2008). Creating alternative and demedicalized spaces: Testimonial narrative on disability, culture, and racialization. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 9(3), 79. Link (open access)

54. Dowse, Leanne, Frohmader, Carolyn, & Didi, Aminath. (2016). Violence Against Disabled Women in the Global South: Working Locally, Acting Globally. In: Shaun Grech & Karen Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (pp. 323-336). Cham: Springer. Link (closed access)

55. Dunhamn, Jane, Harris, Jerome, Jarrett, Shancia, Moore, Leroy, Nishida, Akemi, Price, Margaret, Robinson, Britney, & Schalk, Sami. (2015). Developing and Reflecting on a Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Work from the National Black Disability Coalition. Disability Studies Quarterly, 35(2). Link (open access)

56. Elshout, Elly, Wilhelm, Dorothee, Fontaine, Carole R, Eiesland, Nancy L, Stiteler, Valerie C, McCollum, Adele B, & Wenig, Margaret Moers. (1994). Roundtable Discussion: Women with Disabilities a Challenge to Feminist Theology. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 10(2), 99-134. Link (closed access)

57. Erevelles, Nirmala. (2011). The color of violence: Reflecting on gender, race, and disability in wartime. In: Kim Q Hall (Ed.), Feminist Disability Studies (pp. 117-135). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

58. Erevelles, Nirmala. (2011). Disability and difference in global contexts: Enabling a transformative body politic. Springer.

59. Erevelles, Nirmala. (2014). Crippin’ Jim Crow: Disability, Dis-Location, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Disability Incarcerated (pp. 81-99): Springer. Link (open access)

60. Erevelles, Nirmala. (2016). “Becoming Disabled”: Towards the Political Anatomy of the Body. Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism, 219. Link (open access)

61. Erevelles, Nirmala, Kanga, Anne, & Middleton, Renee. (2006). How does it feel to be a problem? Race, disability, and exclusion in educational policy. In: Ellen A. Brantlinger (Ed.), Who benefits from special education (pp. 77-99). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

62. Erevelles, Nirmala, & Minear, Andrea. (2010). Unspeakable offenses: Untangling race and disability in discourses of intersectionality. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 127-145. Link (open access)

63. Erevelles, Nirmala, & Mutua, Kagendo. (2005). ‘I am a woman now!’: Rewriting cartographies of girlhood from the critical standpoint of disability. In: Pamela J. Bettis & Natalie G. Adams (Eds.), Geographies of girlhood: Identities in-between (pp. 253-269): Routledge.

64. Fahd, Nada, Marji, Maha, Mufti, Nirmin, Masri, Muzna, & Makaram, Amer. (2015). A Double Discrimination: Blind Girls Life-Chances. In: Lina Abu-Habib (Ed.), Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East (pp. 46-52). London: Oxfam.

65. Fawcett, Barbara. (2002). Convergence or divergence? Responding to the abuse of disabled women. The Journal of Adult Protection, 4(3), 24-33. Link (closed access)

66. Fine, Michelle, & Asch, Adrienne. (1981). Disabled women: Sexism without the pedestal. Soc. & Soc. Welfare, 8, 233. Link (open access)

67. Fine, Michelle, & Asch, Adrienne. (2009). Women with disabilities: Essays in psychology, culture, and politics. Temple University Press.

68. Flaugh, Christian. (2010). Of Colonized Mind and Matter: The Dis/Abilities of Negritude in Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(3), 291-308. Link (closed access)

69. Francis, Leslie P, Silvers, Anita, & Badesch, Brittany. (2016). Reproductive Rights and Access to Reproductive Services for Women with Disabilities. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, 18(4), 430-437. Link (open access)

70. Frazee, Catherine, Gilmour, Joan, & Mykitiuk, Roxanne. (2011). Now You See Her, Now You Don’t: How Law Shapes Disabled Women’s Experience of Exposure, Surveillance, and Assessment in the Clinical Encounter In: Dianne Pothier & Richard Devlin (Eds.), Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy, and Law (pp. 223-247). Vancouver: UBC Press.

71. Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. (2002). Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory. NWSA journal, 14(3), 1-32. Link (open access)

72. Garland‐Thomson, Rosemarie. (2005). Feminist disability studies. Signs, 30(2), 1557-1587. Link (closed access)

73. Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. (2011). Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory. In: Kim Q. Hall (Ed.), Feminist disability studies (pp. 13-47). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [revised version of 2002 article]

74. Ghai, Anita. (2002). Disabled Women: An Excluded Agenda of Indian Feminism. Hypatia, 17(3), 49-66. Link (open access)

75. Gibbons, Hailee M. (2016). Compulsory Youthfulness: Intersections of Ableism and Ageism in “Successful Aging” Discourses. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 12(2 & 3). Link (closed access)

76. Gillespie-Sells, Kath, Hill, Mildrette, & Robbins, Bree. (1998). She Dances to Different Drums: research into disabled women’s sexuality. King’s Fund.

77. Gilroy, John, & Donelly, Michelle. (2016). Australian indigenous people with disability: Ethics and standpoint theory. Disability in the Global South (pp. 545-566): Springer. Link (closed access)

78. Goodley, Dan. (2011). Intersections: Diverse Disability Studies. Disability studies: An interdisciplinary introduction. (pp.33-47). Sage. [Chapter 3]

79. Gorman, Rachel, & Udegbe, Onyinyechukwu. (2010). Disabled Woman/Nation: Re-narrating the Erasure of (Neo) colonial Violence in Ondjaki’s Good Morning Comrades and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(3), 309-326. Link (closed access)

80. Grech, Shaun. (2015). Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate. Social Identities, 21(1), 6-21. Link (open access)

81. Grech, Shaun, & Soldatic, Karen. (2015). Disability and colonialism:(dis) encounters and anxious intersectionalities. Social Identities, 21(1), 1-5. Link (closed access)

82. Gunaratnam, Yasmin. (1993). Checklist, Health & Race: A Starting Point for Managers on Improving Services for Black Populations. Kings Fund Centre.

83. Gunaratnam, Yasmin. (1997). Breaking the silence: black and ethnic minority carers and service provision. Community Care: A Reader (pp. 114-123): Macmillan Education UK.

84. Gunaratnam, Yasmin. (2007). Complexity and complicity in researching ethnicity and health. In: Jenny Douglas, Sarah Earle, Stephen Handsley, Cathy E Lloyd & Sue Spurr (Eds.), A Reader in Promoting Public Health: Challenge and Controversy (pp. 47-56). Milton Keynes: Sage.

85. Gunaratnam, Yasmin. (2008). From competence to vulnerability: Care, ethics, and elders from racialized minorities. Mortality, 13(1), 24-41. Link (closed access)

86. Gunaratnam, Yasmin. (2013). Death and the migrant: bodies, borders and care. A&C Black.

87. Guralnik, Jack M, Leveille, Suzanne G, Hirsch, Rosemarie, Ferrucci, Luigi, & Fried, Linda P. (1996). The impact of disability in older women. Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association (1972), 52(3), 113-120. Link (closed access)

88. Hague, Gill, Thiara, Ravi, & Mullender, Audrey. (2010). Disabled Women, Domestic Violence and Social Care: The Risk of Isolation, Vulnerability and Neglect. British Journal of Social Work, 148-165. Link (closed access)

89. Hague, Gill, Thiara, Ravi, & Mullender, Audrey. (2011). Disabled women and domestic violence: Making the links, a national UK study. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 18(1), 117-136. Link (closed access)

90. Halder, Santoshi. (2015). Tale of Married Women With Disabilities: An Oxymoron Reality. In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 6)

91. Hall, Kim Q. (Ed.). Feminist disability studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

92. Hamilton, Jean A. (1995). Sex and Gender as Critical Variables in Psychotropic Drug Research. In: Charles V Willie, Patricia Perri Rieker, Bernard M Kramer & Bertram S Brown (Eds.), Mental Health, Racism And Sexism (pp. 297-350): University of Pittsburgh Press.

93. Hanna, William John, & Rogovsky, Betsy. (1991). Women with disabilities: Two handicaps plus. Disability, Handicap & Society, 6(1), 49-63. Link (closed access)

94. Hans, Asha (Ed.). (2015). Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage.

95. Harpur, Paul. (2009). Sexism and Racism, Why Not Ableism? Calling for a Cultural Shift in the Approach to Disability Discrimination. Alternative LJ, 34, 163. Link (open access)

96. Harrison, Malcolm L, & Davis, Cathy. (2001). Housing, social policy, and difference: disability, ethnicity, gender, and housing. The Policy Press.

97. Hassouneh-Phillips, Dena, & McNeff, Elizabeth. (2005). ‘I thought I was less worthy’: Low sexual and body esteem and increased vulnerability to intimate partner abuse in women with physical disabilities. Sexuality and Disability, 23(4), 227-240. Link (closed access)

98. Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, Zinn, Maxine Baca, & Denissen, Amy M. (2015). Gender through the Prism of Difference. Oxford University Press, USA.

99. Hubbard, Ruth. (2006). Abortion and disability: Who should and who should not inhabit the world. In: Davis J. Lennard (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (2nd ed., pp. 93-104). New York: Routledge. Link (open access)

100. Humphrey, Jill C. (1999). Disabled People and the Politics of Difference. Disability & Society, 14(2), 173-188. Link (closed access)

101. Hussain, Yasmin. (2005). South Asian disabled women: negotiating identities. The Sociological Review, 53(3), 522-538. Link (open access)

102. Ignagni, Esther, Fudge Schormans, Ann, Liddiard, Kirsty, & Runswick-Cole, Katherine. (2016). ‘Some people are not allowed to love’: intimate citizenship in the lives of people labelled with intellectual disabilities. Disability & Society, 31(1), 131-135. Link (open access)

103. Inckle, Kay. (2009). Writing on the body? Thinking through gendered embodiment and marked flesh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

104. Inckle, Kay. (2010). Bent: Non-normative embodiment as lived intersectionality. Theorizing intersectionality and sexuality (pp. 255-273): Springer. Link (closed access)

105. Inckle, Kay. (2011). Scarred for Life: Women’s Creative Self-Journeys through Stigmatised Embodiment. Somatechnics, 1(2), 315-333. Link (closed access)

106. Inckle, Kay. (2014). A lame argument: Profoundly disabled embodiment as critical gender politics. Disability & Society, 29(3), 388-401. Link (closed access)

107. Inckle, Kay. (2015). debilitating times: compulsory ablebodiedness and white privilege in theory and practice. feminist review, 111(1), 42-58. Link (closed access)

108. Jarman, Michelle. (2011). Coming Up from Underground: Uneasy Dialogues at the Intersections of Race, Mental Illness, and Disability Studies. Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, 21, 9. Link (open access)

109. Jordan, Kathy-Anne. (2005). Discourses of difference and the overrepresentation of black students in special education. The Journal of African American History, 90(1/2), 128-149. Link (closed access)

110. Kallianes, Virginia, & Rubenfeld, Phyllis. (1997). Disabled women and reproductive rights. Disability & Society, 12(2), 203-222. Link (closed access)

111. Kafer, Alison. (2003). Compulsory bodies: Reflections on heterosexuality and able-bodiedness. Journal of Women’s History, 15(3), 77-89. Link (closed access)

 

112. Kafer, Alison. (2013). Feminist, queer, crip. Indiana University Press.

113. Kafer, Alison. (2016). Un/Safe Disclosures: Scenes of Disability and Trauma. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 10(1), 1-20. Link (closed access)

114. Kennedy, Stefanie, & Newton, Melanie J. (2016). The Hauntings of Slavery: Colonialism and the Disabled Body in the Caribbean. In: Shaun Grech & Karen Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (pp. 379-391). Cham: Springer. Link (closed access)

115. Karlsen, Saffron, & Nazroo, James Y. (2002). Relation Between Racial Discrimination, Social Class, and Health Among Ethnic Minority Groups. American Journal of Public Health, 92(4), 624-631. Link (opesn access)

116. Kennedy, Stefanie. (2015). ‘Let them be young and stoutly set in limbs’: race, labor, and disability in the British Atlantic World. Social Identities, 21(1), 37-52. Link (closed access)

117. Kim, Eunjung. (2011). Asexuality in disability narratives. Sexualities, 14(4), 479-493. Link (open access)

118. King, JA, Brough, M, & Knox, M. (2014). Negotiating disability and colonisation: the lived experience of Indigenous Australians with a disability. Disability & Society, 29(5), 738-750. Link (open access)

119. Ladele, Omolola A. (2016). Disabling Sexualities: Embodiments of a Colonial Past. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 12(1), 23-39. Link (open access)

120. Lakkis, Sylvanna. (2015). Mobilising Women with Physical Disabilities: The Lebanese Sitting Handicapped Association. In: Lina Abu-Habib (Ed.), Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East (pp. 28-35). London: Oxfam.

121. Lee, Theresa Man Ling. (2011). Multicultural Citizenship: The Case of the Disabled. In: Dianne Pothier & Richard Devlin (Eds.), Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy, and Law (pp. 87-105). Vancouver: UBC Press.

122. Lennard, Davis J. (2006). The Disability Studies Reader (2nd ed.) London: Routledge.

123. Lennard, Davis J. (2013). The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed.) London: Routledge.

124. Leonardo, Zeus, & Broderick, Alicia. (2011). Smartness as property: A critical exploration of intersections between whiteness and disability studies. Teachers College Record, 113(10), 2206-2232. Link (open access)

125. Liddiard, Kirsty. (2013). Reflections on the Process of Researching Disabled People’s Sexual Lives. Sociological Research Online, 18(3), 10. Link (open access)

126. Liddiard, Kirsty. (2014). The work of disabled identities in intimate relationships. Disability & Society, 29(1), 115-128. Link (open access)

127. Liddiard, Kirsty. (2014). ‘I never felt like she was just doing it for the money’: Disabled men’s intimate (gendered) realities of purchasing sexual pleasure and intimacy. Sexualities, 17(7), 837-855. Link (open access)

128. Limaye, Sandhya. (2015). A Disabled Mother’s Journey in Raising her Child. In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 7)

129. Lloyd, Margaret. (1992). Does She Boil Eggs? Towards a Feminist Model of Disability. Disability, Handicap & Society, 7(3), 207-221. Link (closed access)

130. Lorde, Audre. (1980). The Cancer Journal. London: Sheba Feminist Press.

131. Lukin, Josh. (2013). Disability and Blackness. In: Lennard Davis (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed., pp. 308-315). Oxon: Routledge.

132. M’charek, Amade. (2010). When whiteness becomes a problem:(un) doing differences in the case of Down’s Syndrome. Medische Antropologie, 22(2), 263-275. Link (open access)

133. Mairs, Nancy. (1992). Plaintext. University of Arizona Press.

134. Marsh, Marianne. (1995). Feminist psychopharmacology: An aspect of feminist psychiatry. Women & therapy, 16(1), 73-84. Link (closed access)

135. May, Vivian M, & Ferri, Beth A. (2005). Fixated on ability: questioning ableist metaphors in feminist theories of resistance. Prose Studies, 27(1-2), 120-140. Link (open access)

136. Mays, Jennifer M. (2006). Feminist disability theory: Domestic violence against women with a disability. Disability & Society, 21(2), 147-158. Link (closed access)

137. McRuer, Robert. (2006). Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability. NYU Press

138. McRuer, Robert. (2010). Disability nationalism in crip times. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 163-178. Link (open access)

139. McRuer, Robert, & Wilkerson, Abby L. (2003). Special issue: Desiring disability: Queer theory meets disability studies. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9(1-2), 1-24. Link (closed access)

140. Meekosha, Helen. (2011). Decolonising disability: thinking and acting globally. Disability & Society, 26(6), Link (closed access)

141. Mehrotra, Nilika, & Nayar, Mahima. (2015). Women with Psychosocial Disabilities: Shifting the Lens from Medical to Social. In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 3)

142. Mel, Neloufer de. (2016). Playing Disability, Performing Gender: Militarised Masculinity and Disability Theatre in the Sri Lankan War and Its Aftermath. In: Shaun Grech & Karen Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (pp. 99-116). Cham: Springer. Link (closed access)

143. Merkwae, Amanda. (2015). Schooling the Police: Race, Disability, and the Conduct of School Resource Officers. J. Race & L., 21, 147. Link (open access)

144. Metzl, Jonathan M. (2010). The Protest Psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease. Beacon Press.

145. Millett-Gallant, Ann. (2013). Sculpting Body Ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Public Display of Disability. In: Lennard Davis (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed., pp. 398-410). Oxon: Routledge.

146. Minkowitz, Tina. (2015). What is the Intersection between Oppression of Women and Psychiatric Oppression? In: Asha Hans (Ed.), Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power. New Delhi: Sage. (Chapter 5)

147. Mintz, Susannah B. (2006). Ordinary vessels: Disability narrative and representations of faith. Disability Studies Quarterly, 26(3). Link (open access)

148. Mintz, Susannah B. (2007). Unruly bodies: Life writing by women with disabilities. Univ of North Carolina Press.

149. Mitchell, David, & Snyder, Sharon. (2003). The Eugenic Atlantic: race, disability, and the making of an international Eugenic science, 1800–1945. Disability & Society, 18(7), 843-864 Link (closed access)

150. Mog, Ashley, & Swarr, Amanda Lock. (2008). Threads of commonality in transgender and disability studies. Disability Studies Quarterly, 28(4). Link (open access)

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176. Samuels, Ellen. (2014). Fantasies of identification: Disability, gender, race. New York: NYU Press.

177. Sandahl, Carrie. (2003). Queering the crip or cripping the queer?: Intersections of queer and crip identities in solo autobiographical performance. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9(1), 25-56. Link (open access)

178. Saxton, Marsha. (1987). With wings: An anthology of literature by and about women with disabilities. Feminist Press at CUNY.

179. Saxton, Marsha, Curry, Mary Ann, Powers, Laurie E, Maley, Susan, Eckels, Karyl, & Gross, Jacqueline. (2001). “Bring My Scooter So I Can Leave You” A Study of Disabled Women Handling Abuse by Personal Assistance Providers. Violence Against Women, 7(4), 393-417. Link (closed access)

180. Saxton, Marsha. (2013). Disability Rights and Selective Abortion. In: Davis J. Lennard (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4^th) (pp. 87-99). London: Routledge.

181. Schneider, Marguerite, Mokomane, Zitha, & Graham, Lauren. (2016). Social Protection, Chronic Poverty and Disability: Applying an Intersectionality Perspective. In: Shaun Grech & Karen Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (pp. 365-376). Cham: Springer. Link (closed access)

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188. Stienstra, Deborah, & Nyerere, Leon. (2016). Race, Ethnicity and Disability: Charting Complex and Intersectional Terrains. In: Shaun Grech & Karen Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (pp. 255-268). Cham: Springer. Link (closed access)

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THIRD SECTOR, GOVERNMENT & UN REPORTS AND PAPERS

1. Begum, Nasa. (1992). Something to be proud of: The lives of Asian disabled people and carers in Waltham Forest. Race Relations Unit and Disability Unit, London Borough of Waltham Forest.

2. Begum, Nasa, Hill, Mildrette, & Stevens, Andy. (1994). Reflections: the views of black disabled people on their lives and community care. CCETSW London.

3. Begum, Nasa. (2006). Doing it for themselves: participation and black and minority ethnic service users. Social Care Institute for Excellence and the Race Equality Unit. [report] Link (open access)

4. Centre for Reproductive Rights. (2002). Reproductive Rights and Women with Disabilities: A Human Rights Framework [Briefing Paper]. Centre for Reproductive Rights. Link (open access)

5. Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), Women Enabled International (WEI), & National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH). (2014). Submission to the Committee Against Torture, United States of America. Link (open access)

6. Frohmader, Carolyn, & Ortoleva, Stephanie. (2013). The Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities. Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) & Women Enabled International (WEI): International Conference on Population and Develompent (ICPD) Conference Briefing Paper. Link (open access)

7. Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. (2001). Re-shaping, Re-thinking, Re-defining: Feminist Disability Studies. Barbara Waxman Fiduccia Papers on Women and Girls with Disabilities: Center for Women Policy Studies. Link (open access)

8. (1991). Race and Disability. A Dialogue for Action Conference Report. Link (open access)

9. Meekosha, Helen & Carolyn, Frohmader. (2010). Recognition, Respect and Rights: Disabled Women in a Globalised World (on behalf of Women With Disabilities Australia – WWDA). Paper presented at the 2010 Regional Conference on Women with Disabilities, Guangzhou, China. Link (open access)

10. Ortoleva, Stephanie, & Lewis, Hope. (2012). Forgotten Sisters – A Report on Violence Against Women with Disabilities: An Overview of its Nature, Scope, Causes and Consequences Northeastern Public Law and Theory Faculty Research Papers Series No. 104-2012. Link (open access)

11. Roberts, Keri, & Harris, Jennifer. (2002). Disabled people in refugee and asylum seeking communities. Bristol: Policy Press and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Link (open access)

12. Rousso, Harilyn. (2003). Education for All: a gender and disability perspective Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2003/4, The Leap to Equality: World Bank. Link (open access)

13. Singh, Becca. (2005). Improving Support for Black Disabled People: lessons from community organisations on making change happen. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Link (open access)

14. Soorenian, Armineh, & Lisney, Eleanor. (2016). Submission on the rights of persons with disabilities for the CESCR Committee’s review of the United Kingdom: Sisters of Frida. Link (open access)

15. United Nations. (1990). Report on the Seminar of Disabled Women. Vienna: Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs Division for the Advancement of Women (20-24 August 1990), United Nations. Link (open access)

16. Women Enabled International (WEI). (2014). Comments on U.S. Department of Education Proposed Regulations On Sexual Violence and Assault on College Campuses. Link (open access)

17. Women Enabled International (WEI). (2015). WEI’s International Submission to the ICCPR Article 6 on Right to Life and Women. Link (open access)

18. Women Enabled International (WEI). (2015). Women Enabled International’s Comments to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Draft General Comment on Article 6: Women. Link (open access)

19. Women Enabled International (WEI), & Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR). (2015). Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review: United States of America. Second Cycle. Link (open access)

20. Women Enabled International (WEI). (2016). Women Enabled International Submission to OHCHR: Protection of the Rights of the Child and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Link (open access)

21. Women Enabled International (WEI). (2016). Women Enabled International Submission to the CEDAW Committee: Comments on Draft Update to General Recommendation No. 19. Endorsed by: Advocacy for Women with Disabilities Initiative (AWWDI) (Nigeria); Association of Disabled Women, ONE.pl (Poland); CREA (India); Handicap International’s Making It Work Initiative on Gender and Disability (France); Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) (Nigeria); National Union of Women with Disabilities of Uganda (NUWODU); Shanta Memorial Rehabilitation Centre (India); Sisters of Frida (United Kingdom); and Women with Disabilities India Network (WWDIN). Link (open access)

22. Women Enabled International (WEI). (2016). Talking Points: Zika, Microcephaly, Women’s Rights, and Disability Rights. Link (open access); Link en Español (open access); Link em Português (open access)

23. Women Enabled International (WEI), Advocacy for Women with Disability Initiative (AWWDI), Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), & Inclusive Friends Association. (2016). NGO Submission to the CEDAW Committee Pre-Sessional Working Group for Nigeria. Link (open access)

24. Women Enabled International (WEI), & Women with Disabilities India Network. (2016). Joint Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review: India. Third Cycle. Link (open access)

25. Women Enabled International (WEI), & Sisters of Frida (SOF). (2016). Joint Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Third Cycle. Link 1 (open access)

Compiled by Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, Sisters of Frida & University of Manchester

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