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DISABILITY & SOCIETY
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 757-771Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2011.602867
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domestic violence; disabled women; gender; intersectionality
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The links between disability and domestic violence have been under-examined to date, leading to the marginalisation of disabled women affected by domestic violence in theory, politics, and practice. This paper draws on the findings from the first national study in the United Kingdom of the needs of disabled women experiencing domestic violence and of the services available to meet these needs. Utilising the concept of intersectionality to locate abused disabled women along axes of oppression/domination, the paper highlights the complex nature of women's abuse experiences as well as the inadequacy of professional responses which leave women without support and protection.
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