Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

DeepDyve requires Javascript to function. Please enable Javascript on your browser to continue.

Sexuality and Disability Volume 12 Issue 2

Subject Areas: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press - Springer Journals
ISSN: 0146-1044
SJR: 42

LitStream

Journal Article

From the editor

Ducharme, Stanley

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547883
LitStream

Journal Article

Preface to the special issue on women with disabilities: Reproduction and motherhood

Saxton, Marsha

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547884
LitStream

Journal Article

When is a woman not a woman

Gill, Carol

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547885
LitStream

Journal Article

Women with disabilities having children: It's our right too

Killoran, Carrie

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547886

This is a first person account of the experiences, frustrations and joys of a woman with a disability pursuing the dream of having a child. The author describes the difficulties of dealing with the medical establishment and the problems that she encountered when pursuing fertility services. The...
LitStream

Journal Article

Mothers with disabilities

Kocher, Meg

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547887

This paper is a collection of personal experiences regarding motherhood expressed by six women who have a disability. The article discusses the challenges of motherhood and the difficulties imposed by the presence of a disability. It confronts the notion that a good mother must be physically...
LitStream

Journal Article

The politics of prenatal testing and selective abortion

Blumberg, Lisa

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547888

This article addresses difficult issues regarding the decision to have children for women with and without a disability. Specifically, the paper discusses the current trend toward prenatal screenings and abortions for women expected to be carrying fetuses that are “defective”. Societal attitudes...
LitStream

Journal Article

Up against eugenics: Disabled women's challenge to receive reproductive health services

Waxman, Barbara

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547889 pmid:11656410

This is an overview of disabled women's reproductive health status. It focuses on the politics of eugenics, which explains why disabled women are devalued as sources of reproduction, have little access to women's health services, and are faced with methods of contraception which continue to pose...
LitStream

Journal Article

Resources for women with disabilities

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547890
LitStream

Journal Article

Upcoming special issues

2006 Sexuality and Disability

doi:10.1007/BF02547891

results per page

Prev
1
Next