Životne priče žena sa invaliditetom u Vojvodini - centar živeti uspravno

Oral Histories of Women with Disabilities / Summary
The term persons with disabilities implies persons with iborn or acquired
physical, sensory, intellectual or emotional disability, and who are, due to social
and other barriers, deprived of the opportunities or have reduced opportunities
to participate in social activities at the same level with other citizens, regardless
of whether they use assistive devices or an assistance service.
When speaking about women, there is double soical discrimination, because
they are persons with disabilities and because they are women.
Based on a research of the World Health Organisation 10% of the inhabitants
of our planet, i.e. approximately 500 million people have some impairment
(locomotor, mental or sensory): acquired or inborn. It has been proven
that the development of science and technology and due to the effects of wars,
crises and poverty, that number is constantly increasing, so we are talking here
about a large number of people, a fact that has so far mainly been neglected,
about whom we know little in general because it has not been sufficiently visible
in everyday life.
The book titled Oral Histories of Women with Disabilities is being published
as a result of a project that has jointly been implemented by the Centre „Living
Upright“ and the Association of Citizens „Women Studies and Research“
in Novi Sad.
The aim of the project was to collect biographies of women with disabilities
who live in Vojvodina in different cultural, social, linguistic and economic
circumstances, and who are witnesses, by their experiences, of the double discrimination
in our society.
The second goal was to enable researchers who will further create documentation
on the life stories of women with disabilities in the region by applying
the method of oral history.
The final goal of a project thus designed serves to raise the awareness on
the position of women with disabilities among us and the need to overcome the
current situation.
Through their life experiences women with disabilities reconstruct the patriarchal
social context, which labels everything that is different as being less valuable
and thus develops measures that sanction diversity. There are numerous
prejudices on women with disabilities, related to their work abilities, intelligence,
emotional responses, house care, sexuality, motherhood and capacity to
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