Stories
- Article
Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
- Article
“People see the disability but forget the ability”
I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.
- Article
Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
- Photo story
’No you’re not’ – a portrait of autistic women
In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Be: Motherhood - Women with learning disabilities
Date: 1993-1997Reference: SA/WHL/2/4Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Journals
Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering / National Science Foundation.
- Books
Resourceful woman : Barbara Waxman Fiduccia : leading the charge toward sexual health and reproductive rights for people with disabilities.
Date: 2003- Books
Dissonant disabilities : women with chronic illnesses explore their lives / edited by Diane Driedger and Michelle Owen.
Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
Women and prenatal testing : facing the challenges of genetic technology / edited by Karen H. Rothenberg and Elizabeth J. Thomson.
Date: [1994], ©1994