Representations of women with disabilities: a discourse analysis of the University of Victoria School of Social Work 323 Anti-opressive Praxis distance training manual : section 17

• Main Author: Anderson, Susan Elizabeth
• Other Authors: Moss, Pamela
• Language: English; en
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: women with disabilities; social work education; British Columbia; Canada; UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Social Sciences::Social service
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2139

Theories of anti-oppressive social work address social inequity through social justice perspectives. Recent literature in disability studies and social justice has not been extensively included in social work debate. I locate my research in between these two literatures. I examine how women with disabilities are portrayed in texts used in training undergraduate anti-oppressive social workers. I use an experience-based understanding of knowledge as a feminist social worker and a woman with a disability. The analysis of three texts shows that these particular depictions are wide-ranging though dated, and can unfortunately be mistaken as singularly definitive of all women with disabilities.