Disability Rights & Disability Studies

The Intersectionality of Poverty, Disability and Gender as a Framework to Understand Violence Against Women with Disabilities : A Case Study of South Africa

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Impoverished women who have disabilities make up some of the most isolated and overlooked people in the world. Often, they are excluded from women’s movements due to their disability, disability movements due to their gender, and One-Third World contexts due to their poverty. Gender, socioeconomic status, and disability create multiple layers of discrimination. These intersectional forces impact the ways in which impoverished women with disabilities experience violence, making them two to four times as prone to violence as their able-bodied counterparts. In low resource settings, women with disabilities encounter many forms of violence, including caretaker abuse, forced sterilisation, and sexual violence. In South Africa, the lack of services and state-sponsored support for impoverished women with disabilities worsens their situation. In an effort to address this deficit, attention should be focused on providing and creating specialised organisations and programs to support women with disabilities who experience violence.

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: International Development, Community and Environment., 2016

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South Africa
Violence against women
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Disablement

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This Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Master’s Papers at Clark Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE) by an authorised administrator of Clark Digital Commons.

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Humphrey, Megan,

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