Preface.In 1999, at the urging of our sister/colleague Barbara Barbaramaid exemplifying personal and domestic neatness. [Br. Lit.: Old Curiosity Shop] See : Orderliness Faye Faye may refer to:
Sadly, we lost Barbara in April of 2001 and we will always miss her great and powerful spirit and her passion to ensure the full human rights of women and girls with disabilities. We continue this work, therefore, in her name, in her feminist spirit, and in her memory. This report, written by leading Feminist Disability Studies scholar/activist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, launches the Center's Barbara Waxman Fiduccia Papers on Women and Girls with Disabilities. As Barbara and I noted in the Introduction to Women and Girls with Disabilities: Defining the Issues - An Overview. "Disabled women and girls are of all ages, all racial, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds and sexual orientations; they live in rural, urban and suburban communities... Disabled women and girls live at the corner of disability and womanhood -- with two 'minority' identities, a double dose of discrimination and stereotyping and multiple barriers to achieving their life goals... While many women with disabilities derive enormous strength, resilience resilience (r  ·zilˑ·yens),n and creativity from their multiple identities, they also face the consequences of discrimination... Yet, the self-defined needs of women with disabilities remain on the margins of the social justice movements that should represent them - the women's movement women's movement: see feminism; woman suffrage. women's movement Diverse social movement, largely based in the U.S., seeking equal rights and opportunities for women in their economic activities, personal lives, and politics. , the disability rights movement, and the civil rights movement - leaving disabled women and girls of all backgrounds essentially invisible. The Center for Women Policy Studies presents the Barbara Waxman Fiduccia Papers on Women and Girls with Disabilities as our small contribution to ending this invisibility and bringing the self-defined needs of women and girls with disabilities to policy makers, advocates, educators, and the general public. We are especially grateful to Susan O'Hara and the True North Foundation for their generous support for the development and production of this series of reports. And we remain grateful to Felicia Lynch, former president of Women and Philanthropy philanthropy, the spirit of active goodwill toward others as demonstrated in efforts to promote their welfare. The term is often used interchangeably with charity. , for her visionary leadership in bringing the self-defined needs of women with disabilities to philanthropy. Leslie R. Wolfe President Center for Women Policy Studies September 2001 |
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