This important and ground-breaking collection brings
together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both
physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the
societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social
attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility. They bring to light
the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are
women, and through ableism, because they have disabilities. For them,
the personal is definitely political. While society traditionally views
having a disability as “weakness” and that women are the “weaker” sex,
this collection points to the strength, persistence, and resilience of
disabled women living the edges.
