@article{7b11fb3e-4f04-46a3-8ad9-04de5ea2e73f,
author = {Urszula Bartnikowska},
title = {Origins of femininity from the perspective of women with intellectual disability. Research report},
journal = {Disability},
volume = {2019},
number = {Issue 35 (2019)},
year = {2019},
issn = {2080-9476},
pages = {144-155},keywords = {femininity; origins of femininity; women with intellectual disabilities; self-advocates},
abstract = {Although we can observe a growing interest in the issues of gender in disability studies, there has been little research on femininity in the context of intellectual disability. The author focuses on the origins of femininity presented by female self-advocates with intellectual disabilities. The re-search, whose results were presented in the paper, was conducted in three towns in north-eastern Poland with three focus groups of females who took part in interviews. The participants were 21 women aged of 21-60 with intellectual disabilities. The main research question was: what are the origins femininity from the point of view of women - self-advocates with intellectual disabili-ties? The findings show that... The results, which showed a high level of gender identity of female participants with intellectual disabilities, could be explained by belonging to the groups of self-advocates in which the participants' self-awareness is intentionally developed. The findings show that the interviewees identified two categories of sources of their femininity: biological and social. Two spheres of touching their own femininity were also distinguished: personal and social. Also, facilitators and barriers influencing the women's feminine identity were renowned.},
doi = {10.4467/25439561.NP.19.036.12279},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/niepelnosprawnosc/article/korzenie-kobiecosci-w-ujeciu-kobiet-z-niepelnosprawnoscia-intelektualna-doniesienie-badawcze}
}