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Mundos de Mujeres/Women's Worlds 2008 (http://www.mmww08.org
<blocked::http://www.mmww08.org/> ) is "the most important congress on
academic research on gender and women and feminist social movements."
This major international event will bring together people from all over
the world - researchers, specialist, activist and major international
public figures to discuss the key issues that impact women. A key goal
is to fight against social injustices and gender inequalities. The 2008
interdisciplinary Congress has selected three concepts: frontiers, dares
and advancements to address a spectrum of themes and issues that can
help us understand the world we live in.
Kindly consider submitting an abstract for the following sessions:
Session 1 - Panel Title: Citizenship, policy and inclusion for women
with disabilities
Women with disabilities have, until recently, remained a silenced and
virtually invisible minority group. Historically, at least in the West,
such women were frequently institutionalized, medicalized, eugenicized
and marginalized. During the latter half of the 20th century, however,
liberal-humanist movements and medical advances led to significant
changes in the lives of women with disabilities. The 'last civil rights
movement' of disability rights has led in many countries to
anti-discrimination and human rights legislation that specifically
includes disability. This in turn has given rise to policies and
programmes aimed to include people with disabilities more fully into
their societies. Additionally, medical advances and paradigmatic shifts
in models of disability have resulted in increasing numbers of people
living longer and more fulfilled lives in their communities. For many
women with disabilities, this has meant that motherhood, sexual rights,
employment equity, educational opportunities, and personal autonomy are
rights and expectations grounded in probability rather than fantasy.
Nevertheless, women with disabilities in all countries continue to face
heightened gendered challenges in many areas of their lives. Women with
disabilities are more likely than other women to encounter poor access
to appropriate and inclusive education, lack of employment or
underemployment, poverty and inadequate housing, vulnerability to
violence and abuse, limits to their sexual and reproductive freedom, and
lack of social and institutional support for 'natural' gendered roles,
such as being a lover, partner, careerist, mother, citizen.
This session invites papers that are focused on women with disabilities
and the disjunctures between civil rights discourse/liberal-humanist
practice and women's lived realities. Papers should address the
barriers, challenges and triumphs women with disabilities encounter in
attaining equity. Possible issues to consider would be disabled women's
challenges in obtaining recognition, support and inclusion in terms of;
citizenship, mothering, sexuality, education, employment, freedom from
poverty, community inclusion, and freedom from violence
If you are interested in participating in these panels, please submit
your paper abstract (approximately 200 hundred words) by email to the
organizer: Dr. Claudia Malacrida ( [log in to unmask]
<blocked::mailto:[log in to unmask]> ). The deadline for
submitting your paper abstract is: September 30th 2007.
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Session 2 - Panel Title: In/visible: Indivisible?
Women with disabilities have, until recently, remained a silenced and
virtually invisible minority group. Historically, at least in the West,
such women were frequently institutionalized, medicalized, eugenicized
and marginalized. During the latter half of the 20th century, however,
liberal-humanist movements and medical advances led to significant
changes in the lives of women with disabilities. The 'last civil rights
movement' of disability rights has led to anti-discrimination and human
rights legislation that specifically include disability. This in turn
has given rise to policies and programmes aimed to include people with
disabilities more fully into their societies. Additionally, medical
advances and paradigmatic shifts in models of disability have resulted
in increasing numbers of people living longer, more fulfilled lives in
their communities. For many women with disabilities, this has meant that
motherhood, sexual rights, employment equity, educational opportunities,
and personal autonomy are rights and expectations grounded in
probability rather than fantasy. Nevertheless, women with invisible
disabilities are often conceptualized as being one of the last frontiers
for the disability rights movement, which privileges physical and
visible disabilities. Thus, women with invisible disabilities find
themselves in a borderland.
This session invites theoretical and empirical papers that address how
recent attempts to traffic the concept of 'difference' across the
borders of the disability rights' movement in Canada (most specifically
recent attempts to reform mental health legislation) and at the recent
U.N. convention on the rights of people of disabilities have met with
resistance to countenancing how invisible disabilities are to be figured
into rights'-based struggles.
If you are interested in participating in these panels, please submit
your paper abstract (approximately 200 hundred words) by email to the
organizer: Dr. Leslie Roman ( [log in to unmask] ). The deadline for
submitting your paper abstract is: September 30th 2007.
Best,
Claudia Malacrida
Associate Professor, Sociology
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
T1K 3M4
Tel: (403) 329-2738
Fax: (403) 329-2085
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