Women With Disabilities

Mary E. Willmuth, Lillian Holcomb

Chapter 1 Introduction, Michelle Fine; Chapter 2 The Celebration of the Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Patricia Ranzoni; Chapter 3 Coming Out in Voices, Hershey Laura; Chapter 4 Survival, Michelle Fine; Chapter 5 Double Bind Messages: The Effects of Attitude Towards Disability on Therapy, Geri Esten, Lynn Willmott; Chapter 6 The Prize: Disability, Parenthood, and Adoption, Jane Zirinsky-Wyatt; Chapter 7 Women Who Are Visually Impaired or Blind as Psychotherapy Clients: A Personal and Professional Perspective, Mary Harsh; Chapter 8 The Common Agenda Between Old Women, Women with Disabilities and All Women, Shevy Healey; Chapter 9 Looking Through the Mirror of Disability: Transference and Countertransference Issues with Therapists Who Are Disabled, Alison G. Freeman; Chapter 10 Women and Physical Distinction: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Intervention, Sondra E. Solomon; Chapter 11 An Account of the Search of a Woman Who Is Verbally Impaired for Augmentative Devices to End Her Silence, Lisa Fay; Chapter 12 What We Know About Women’s Technology Use, Avoidance, and Abandonment, Marcia J. Scherer; Chapter 13 An Open Letter to Health and Mental Health Care Professionals from a Survivor of Sexual Exploitation, Martha E. Sheldon; Chapter 14 Sexually Abused Women with Mental Retardation: Hidden Victims, Absent Resources, Michelle Fine; Chapter 15 Further Labeling Within the Category of Disability Due to Chemical Dependency: Borderline Personality Disorder, Gloria J. Hamilton; Chapter 16 Another Strand of Our Diversity: Some Thoughts from a Feminist Therapist with Severe Chronic Illness, Jessica M. Barshay; Chapter 17 Environmental Illness/Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Invisible Disabilities, Pamela Reed Gibson; Chapter 18 Disability in Female Immigrants with Ritually Inflicted Genital Mutilation, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein; Chapter 19 Found Voices: Women, Disability and Cultural Transformation, Deborah Lisi; Chapter 20 SURVIVING SALEM with a movement disorder and several witches’ tits, Patricia Ranzoni;