Abstract
For the past several decades, feminist theorists have focused on the intersection of sex and other identities: race, primarily, but also religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ethnicity. More recently, a few scholars have begun exploring the intersection of sex and disability, highlighting the unique obstacles facing women with disabilities. This Article advances the intersectionality literature by exposing and exploring the marginalization experienced by mothers with disabilities. Specifically, this Article will explore how the stereotypes that apply to women, mothers, and individuals with disabilities, intersect to produce a particularly precarious position for mothers with disabilities in the workplace (employment law) and in the areas of marriage, reproduction, divorce, and custody (family law).
This abstract has been taken from the author's introduction.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Publication Information
33 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 75-110 (2018)
Repository Citation
Porter, Nicole B., "Mothers with Disabilities" (2018). Faculty Publications. 2223.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2223