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Author Abu-Habib, Lina.

Title Gender and disability : women's experiences in the Middle East / Lina Abu-Habib
Published Oxford : Oxfam ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press [distributor], [1997]
©1997

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 MELB  305.4087 Abu/Wei  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 97 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Working with disabled women: reviewing our approach -- 3. The case studies: Introduction. 3.1. Mobilising women with physical disabilities: The Lebanese Sitting Handicapped Association / Sylvana Lakkis. 3.2. Invisible victims: working with mothers of children with learning disabilities / Houda Boukhari. 3.3. A double discrimination: blind girls' life-chances / Nada Fahd, Maha Marji and Nirmin Mufti [et al.]. 3.4. Disability and gender at a cross-roads: a Palestinian perspective / Leila Atshan. 3.5. Facing the backlash: one woman's experience in Yemen / Suad Ramadan. 3.6. Taking the world stage: disabled women at Beijing / Jahda Abu-Khalil -- 4. Conclusion: making 'imperfect' women visible; strategies for the future / Edited by Georgia Gili
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-90)
Subject Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Middle East.
Women with disabilities -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
Women with disabilities -- Middle East.
Author Oxfam.
LC no. 98133386
ISBN 0855983639