Women with disabilities: from discrimination and violence towards an ethics of reciprocity

Author:

Barbuto Rita,Napolitano Emilia

Abstract

Since 2001 DPI Italia, the Italian section of Disabled People's International, has played an important role in a series of research projects in the European Commission's Daphne Programme on violence against women with disabilities. Several different types of violence have been identified, from sexual abuse to removal of women's control over their environment to invasion of their privacy in healthcare contexts to control of their reproductive capacity, particularly of women with intellectual disabilities. In the light of these projects, and of the CRPD's recognition of the multiple discriminations experienced by many women with disabilities, the article argues for a shift away from an ethics of care and dependency towards one of equal reciprocal relations between disabled women and others and to a bioethics grounded not in exceptional need but in everyday life. Peer counselling among disabled women is particularly important in effecting this shift.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,History,Anthropology,Cultural Studies

Reference11 articles.

1. Details of the research projects are as follows: (1) ‘Disabled girls and women – victims of violence: awareness-raising campaign and call for action’, Project number JAI/DAP/OO/052/W. The results were published in the kit Violence Means Death of the Soul (versions available in Italian, English, Spanish, and German); (2) ‘Dawn: new opportunities for the treatment and support of women with disabilities’, Project number JAI/DAP/02/007/W. Results were published in the kit Being a Disabled Woman – Women and Mothers in Contact with Disabilities: Possibilities for Encounters in the Female Universe (in Italian, English, French and Spanish). Published with this project, in Italian and English, was the book, A Possible Autonomy: Itineraries of Women with Disabilities between Empowerment and Advocacy ( Galati et al. 2003); (3) ‘I care: disabled women and personal assistance against violence’, Project number JAI/DAP/03/207/W. Results were published in the kit Women with Disabilities and Personal Assistance: An Instrument to Guarantee Equal Opportunities and Quality of Life (in Italian, English, French and German); (4) ‘Walking roots: methodologies and means against violence on women with disabilities’. Project number 2004-2/94 completed in 2005 and 2006; (5) ‘Lighthouse – health institutions: a place of violence for women with disabilities? An issue of ethics and human rights’.

2. Project number JLS/2006/DAP-1/147/W. Results were published in two languages – Italian and English – in the book Women, Disabilities, and Health ( Galati and Barbuto 2008).

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