Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader

by Diane Driedger (Editor)

Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader is a follow up to Diane Driedger’s 2010 anthology, Living the Edges: A Disabled Women’s Reader. Ten years after the publication of the first book, the lives of women with disabilities have not changed much, as disabled women still face discrimination because they are women and because they are disabled. Still Living the Edges is an international reader that features articles, poetry, essays and visual art from women with various disabilities, from nations such as Canada, United States, Australia, Russia, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe. Disabled women are still on the edges, whether that be on the cutting edge, being pushed to the edges of society or challenging the edges, the barriers in their way.

This collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Disabled women write about their experiences with employment, relationships, body image, sexuality and family life, society’s attitudes, and physical, sexual and emotional abuse. They explore their identity as women with various disabilities —mental and physical. Disabled women tell us about navigating inaccessible environments, and how they are challenging the physical and attitudinal barriers that exclude them from society.

300 pages, Paperback

Published April 26, 2021

Reviews

[Lina Guevara · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was my first book regarding persons with disabilities; I read it for my class women with disabilities which was a real open mind class and book for me. the stories vary in difficulty, academic, storytelling, but they all have in common the struggles women with disabilities have to face every day of their lives. it is a great book to everybody to start in the path of being more empathetic and think about one another when facing a problem or advocating for any cause that we think is correct, so we ask ourselves; what about persons with disabilities? how would this affect them?
Diane was my teacher as well from the class and to listen to her personal insights about some of the authors, how she knew them and how amazing and powerful they were, give it an extra touch to the reading and made me realize that we always have to listen to both sides of the story.