Violence against Women with Disabilities: A Qualitative Investigation

Abstract

Many of the research studies have shown that usually people with disabilities and specifically women with disabilities are at increased risk of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as well as to other practices of violence, such as institutional violence, drug use, undesirable sterilisation, medical abuse, mortification,and nuisance. This study is intended to explore the lived experiences of women with disabilities who have been subjected to any type of violence, generate a theoretical model for the ways in which women with disabilities survived and coped with their violence and finally to make suggestions and recommendationsin order to reduce the elements causing violence against women with disabilities. In this study, a qualitative interpretive phenomenological research methodology has been used to explore, interpret, and evaluate the personal narratives of women with disabilities about their experiences with violence and abuse. The phenomenology approach was used to study the phenomena. A number of 05 women with disabilities who had physical disability or sensory impairment (visual and hearing) were purposively selected as the participants of the study. The age of participants was between 25 to 40 years and they had past experience of any type of abuse of violence, and were cognitively normal to respond interview. At first we identified the participants with the help of survey. A series of detailed and in- depth interview of 60 to 90 minutes were conducted from the participants. On the basis of collected data the researchers have given textural description and a structural description of the experiences, and ultimately provide understanding of the common experience of the participants. Finally from the structural and textural description, the researchers wrote a composite description that to present the essence of the phenomena.

¿Soy lo que ves? Microagresiones capacitistas y visibilidad de la discapacidad

“…Estos hallazgos se confirman también por los resultados obtenidos por Rhoda Olkin et al (2019), que exploraron la experiencia de microagresiones perpetradas hacia mujeres con discapacidades visibles e invisibles. Dentro de los estudios sociales de la discapacidad es cada vez más frecuente la literatura que considera la perspectiva de género, al entenderlo como factor fundamental en la comprensión del funcionamiento de diversos y simultáneos ejes de opresión que operan (Ashraf et al, 2018;Candela y Mulet, 2018;Harris y Wideman, 1988;Hill Collins y Bilge, 2019;Hooks, 1990;Olkin et al, 2019;Palombi, 2012;Platero y Guzmán, 2014;Purdie-Vaughns y Eibach, 2008;Schaff, 2017;Singleton, 2013;Stein y Plummer, 1994;Sue, 2010). Las mujeres con discapacidad sufren situaciones específicas relacionadas con los roles sociales asignados al género, ya sea por un efecto hiperbólico de éstos o por representar una ruptura que amplifica las situaciones de discriminación.…”

Experiences of verbal violence among people with intellectual disabilities in Israel

“…Much of the research to‐date about violence experienced by people with disabilities has focused on physical and sexual violence (Ashraf et al, 2017; Dembo et al, 2018; Kouanda et al, 2022), but verbal violence has also received some attention as well. Verbal violence refers to being yelled or sworn at, being verbally humiliated, intimidated, mocked, or threatened, and being called names, all of which can cause significant psychological problems and, in some ways, has been considered as harmful or even more harmful than physical violence (Teicher et al, 2006; Uzun, 2003).…”

“…Verbal violence refers to being yelled or sworn at, being verbally humiliated, intimidated, mocked, or threatened, and being called names, all of which can cause significant psychological problems and, in some ways, has been considered as harmful or even more harmful than physical violence (Teicher et al, 2006; Uzun, 2003). Studies have examined the experience of verbal violence among many disability populations (Ashraf et al, 2017; Karni‐Vizer & Salzer, 2016; Lindsay et al, 2010; Marín‐Navarrete et al, 2022). For example, Karni‐Vizer and Salzer (2016) found that among a sample of individuals with severe mental illnesses ( N = 50) that 66% reported a verbal violence incident in the last year.…”