Resumen
Despite the continuous progress and evolution, in the European contemporary culture disability is often still meaning inferiority or discrimination. A person with disability, especially if woman, is frequently considered double inferior to everyone, being woman, having a disability, and laying in the intersection of different kinds of discrimination. During last decades, at social and political level many things have transformed, and the society changed even the words used to speak of or about disability, but nevertheless many questions remain unsolved and the fact that disability is either hidden or denied, or misrepresented, or misevaluated is a reality even now. In Italy, one can say the experiences of disability are missing from the general culture and very often an engendered investigation is lacking. Capitalising on the experience made in European research projects, this abstract concentrates on women with disabilities in Italy and aims to widen the existing knowledge on what is needed to improve their quality of life, by means of data and projects’ results, by analysing the gap between the current situation in Europe and in particular in Italy and the real life of people with disabilities from a gender perspective.
Details
Presentation Type
Ponencia temática de un trabajo
Theme
Diversidad en la comunidad y gobierno
KEYWORDS
Italia, Género, Discapacidad, Interseccionalidad
