The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies

Section 1 – Foundations, Theory, and Feminist Disability Movements

1. Introduction: Feminist Disability Studies Today
Rebecca Fish, Kristín Björnsdóttir, and Alison Wilde

2. Discovering Feminist Disability Studies: A Personal Journey
Rannveig Traustadóttir

3. Becoming Able(d) Women – Why Ableism is a Promising Feminist Perspective
Rahel More

4. Rethinking the Relation Between Political Action and Collective Identity in the Disability Movement: Beyond the Fragmentation Thesis
Pekka Koskinen and Reetta Mietola

5. Feminism/s and Disability: Contributions and Remaining Debates in Latin America
María Victoria Tiseyra and Constanza López Radrigán

6. The Everyday World as Problematic: Drawing on Dorothy E. Smith to Extend Understanding of the Affirmation Model
Colin Cameron and Laura Smith

7. Disability is a Feminist Issue: Negotiating Feminist Possibilities and Tensions in Women-Led Disability Organizations
Magda(lena) Szarota

Section 2 – Bodies, Neurodiversity, and Embodied Identities

8. Feminist Disability Studies, Cul-de-sacs and Radical (Re)Imaginings: ‘Becoming’ Disabled Girls and Young Women Through Embodied Encounters
Amanda M. Ptolomey and Phillippa Wiseman

9. The Body is Not Fix(ed): Reauthoring Our Neurodivergent Bodies
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Cecile Chevalier, and Anna Nygren

10. Reimagining Autism, ADHD, and Academia via a Feminist Disability lens: The Magpie Mind in a Capitalist Cage
Emma Craddock

11. Being Mad at the System – Why We need Neurospicy Empowerment While Calling Out Sanism
rosa*Kato Glück

12. Bodies, Ecotones and Disability: Some Personal Reflections
Janine Natalya Clark

13. The Intersectional Challenges of Being a Non-Binary Person with Learning Difficulties: “I am what I am”
Ragnar Smára

Section 3 – Reproduction, Motherhood, and Care

14. Mothering and Disability: From Choice to Reproductive Justice
Ester Micalizzi and Alice Scavarda

15. An Autistic Autoethnography of Healthcare for an Ectopic Pregnancy: “Fearing that I could literally die”
Aimee Grant

16. A Feminist Perspective on Motherhood, Childhood Disability, and Public Health Programming in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Zara Trafford, Amelia Van der Merwe, and Xanthe Hunt

17. Motherhood and Disability: An Intersectional Study of Visually Impaired Women in China
Yiyi Xiong

Section 4 – Lived Experience, Narrative, and Global Perspectives

18. Narratives from Disabled Refugee Women Living in Sweden: An Intersectional Perspective on Everyday Life
Sarah Scheer and Margarita Mondaca

19. The Life I Have as a Woman with Intellectual Disability
Isabel Portelli

20. Reflections on Writing Disability from Beyond Western Preoccupations of Disability Studies: A Creative Reflection
Shahd Alshammari

21. Coming Out of the Shell: The Transition from Marginalization to Carving a Niche
Ritu Singh

Section 5 – Health, Psychiatry, and Bioethics

22. Access to Social Health Insurance of Disabled Women in Vietnam
An Nguyen and Narelle Warren

23. Disability Bioethics in the Nordic Welfare States: Intersections Between Legal Frameworks, Models of Disability and Human Rights
Inger Marie Lid

24. Experiences of Care and Treatment for People on Community based Compulsory Treatment Orders: An Ethics of Care Analysis
Aisha MacGregor

25. Diagnosed and Disciplined: BPD, FASD, and the Feminist Politics of Disability
Rebecca Fish

26. How Suicide Prevention Fails Women: Living at the Intersection of Sexism, Sanism and Suicidism
Alexandre Baril

27. Resisting (Psycho)Pathologisation, Inclusively: An Intersectional Feminist Disability Account of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Joanne Hunt

28. Filming Madness: Psychiatric Institutions, Female Voices, and Ethical Considerations
Hande Cayir

Section 6 – Law, Policy, Violence, and Structural Inequality

29. Autonomy in the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities
Ástríður Stefánsdóttir

30. Gender Neutrality or Gender Absence: A Case for Finnish Employment Sector from the Lens of Women with Disabilities
Garima Singh

31. Examining Irish Socio-Legal Movements Through a Disabled Feminist Lens
Alannah Uí Geargáin

32. ‘Time to Pretend’: Thoughts on Law, Disability & Feminism in the Anxious University
Helen Codd

33. Stories of How Administrative Coloniality (Ab)uses Disabled Women’s Labour in Higher Education: Who Cares for Us?
Emma Sadera, Debbie Larkins, and Sonia M. Fonua

34. Analysing Experiences of Disability Hate Crimes Against Disabled Women in Nigeria and Kenya
Ngozi Marion Emmanuel

35. Disability Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Against Women with Disabilities in Poland: Netnographic Case Study
Beata Borowska-Beszta

36. Don’t Walk Past Violence: On Feminist Praxis and the ‘Lost Voices’ of Disabled Women
Hannah Mason-Bish

Section 7 – Culture, Media, Representation, and Knowledge Production

37. Fragile Bodies, Equal Voices: Exploring the Representations of Disabled Women Held by Society
Amy Camilleri Zahra

38. Gender, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Misdiagnosis: The Womb is Not Allowed to Wander
Dolly Sen

39. Representations of Disability in the Novels of Daphne du Maurier: “I wondered if she had noticed”
Emmeline Burdett

40. Barbie, Feminism, and Disabled Women: “Don’t blame me, blame Mattel. I don’t care.”
Alison Wilde

41. Normalcy Futurities and Posthuman Enhancement: Disability and Gender in Black Mirror’s ‘San Junipero’
Lucía Bennett-Ortega

42. Representations of Disability in Zimbabwe: A critical feminist disability analysis of selected literary texts
Chipo Hungwe, Elda Hungwe, and Zvenyika Eckson Mugari

43. Ethical knowledge production? Considering university methods teaching as integral to the feminist mission of disability studies
Kirstie Ken English, Sharon Greenwood, and Jo Edson Ferrie

44. What, Can I Teach Too? A Journey of Leadership and Inclusion in Higher Education
Hekla Björk Hólmarsdóttir

45. Data Feminism in Times of Crisis
Kristín Björnsdóttir and Ásta Jóhannsdóttir

Biography

Rebecca Fish is a feminist disability studies scholar affiliated with the University of Lancashire and Lancaster University. Her research explores the intersections of gender, disability and institutional life, with particular attention to learning disabled women in secure settings. She examines questions of trauma, care and structural violence, and her work has shaped policy and practice in health and justice contexts. She has published widely on disability, gender, and violence, drawing on ethnographic and qualitative approaches.

Kristín Björnsdóttir is a professor of Disability Studies in Education at the School of Education, University of Iceland. Her areas of expertise include critical gender and disability studies theories, which she has applied in her research on culture, school- and social systems.

Alison Wilde is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminology at Northumbria University. She has researched and written mainly on topics of screen media (Film and TV), disability, gender and audiences, educational inclusion, parenting, gender, and social and health care.  She co-founded the MeCCSA Disability Studies Network, and the BSA's Disability Studies Group.