Multiple gaps on supporting disabled women
January 20, 2023
The interdisciplinary approach to gender violence with disabled women are highlighting the multiple institutional gaps in their support.
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The interdisciplinary approach to gender violence with disabled women are highlighting the multiple institutional gaps in their support.
Women with disabilities face a higher risk of experiencing gender-based violence, which also has ableist implications.
The dominant discourse could no longer present the perpetrators as “monsters”, and speak of “isolated incidents”.
Maria Apostolaki, the coordinator of legal services at the Diotima Center, presents the main institutional obstacles to the protection of surviving women.
The rule of love has been harsh and oppressive and has promoted patriarchal values albeit with spatial and temporal variations.
The 1st part of Maria Liapi’s presentation on domestic violence on the occasion of her participation in the 8th Psychopharmacology Conference.
