Abstract
The literature on disability, gender and “race” has benefited from the political economy perspective. With its emphasis on unmasking the workings of power, this perspective has brought into relief the systemic, institutionalized and spatial oppression of disabled persons, compounded in the case of gender and “race.” This narrative of deconstruction, however, remains incomplete in the absence of voice and subjectivity of persons with disabilities. Using narrative moments, recounted by an immigrant woman with two “disabled” children, this paper makes a case for an integrated framework for a study of racialized persons with disabilities. Here, the margins2 are not out there in other spaces; they form part of the centre whose existence is brought into question by alternative and demedicalized spaces. The data are drawn from a larger study of health and well being of South Asian East African women in metropolitan Vancouver, Canada.
Recommended Citation
Dossa, Parin
(2008)
"Creating Alternative and Demedicalized Spaces: Testimonial Narrative on Disability, Culture, and Racialization,"
Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 9:
Iss.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol9/iss3/6