Review of Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader

Abstract

I Who we are on the Edges -- Must Disability Always Be Visible? The Meaning of Disability for Women -- A Longer Journey of Reflexivity: Becoming a Domesticated Academic -- "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Breast (After Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear)" -- Proliferation -- Medication Reaction -- Radiation -- Living on the Edges -- Cry Not Crazy. Lady -- "Post-Kelly Re: Constructed Reality" -- Arthritic Dreams II -- Feminism, Disability and Transcendence of the Body -- "Untitled Painting" -- Black Thread Around -- Naming the Edges: Barriers -- Margins Are Not For Cowards -- "Me, Myself and I" -- Triple Jeopardy: Native Women with Disabilities -- Coming Out of Two Closets -- Performing My Leaky Body -- To Be Or Not to Be? Whose Question Is It, Anyway? Two Women with Disabilities Discuss the Right to Assisted Suicide -- A Delicate Balance: Chronic Conditions and Workspace -- Living Poorly: Disabled Women on Income Support -- Disability Diss Away -- The Geography of Oppression -- III Violence on the Edges -- An Intersectional Perspective on Violence: A New Response -- undr the dislexic tree -- "Have You Experienced Violence or Abuse?": Talking with Girls and Young Women with Disabilities -- When Bad Things Happen: Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Other Mistreatments Against Manitoba Women with Intellectual Disabilities The Association for Community Living-Manitoba -- "Untitled Woodcut" -- Lions -- IV With us on the Edges: Relationships and Sexuality -- New Reproductive Technology: My Personal and Political Dichotomy -- Deaf-Mute? -- Disability and Relationships -- Marriage-able? Cultural Perspectives of Women with Disabilities of South Asian Origin -- "The Critical Woman and the Space Cadet" -- "You think I want to make fuck with you": Travelling with a Disability or Two -- Access-Sex Series -- V Challenging The Edges -- When the Body Protests: New Forms of Activism -- Creating Community Across Disability and Difference -- Walking a Woman's Path: Women with Intellectual Disabilities The Women's Group, Community Living-Winnipeg -- The First Step Is To Be Noticed -- Art, Sticks and Politics -- "Untitled Drawing" -- The Freedom Tour Documentary: An Experiment in Inclusive Filmaking -- The Disabled Women's Movement: From Where Have We Come? -- Leadership, Partnership and Networking: A Way Forward for the DisAbled Women's Network of Canada.