TY - JOUR
T1 - Everyday practices of exclusion/inclusion : women who have an intellectual disability speaking for themselves?
AU - Welsby, Janette
AU - Horsfall, Debbie
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article discusses a small in-depth research study with five women who have an intellectual disability. Recognising the potential limitations of narrative approaches an inclusive arts-based methodology, supplemented with semi-structured interviews, and was employed to enable the women to speak for themselves about issues that were of interest to them. Thematic analysis of the data showed that the women experienced practices of social and emotional exclusion, and inclusion, in their everyday lives. While disappointing, this is not surprising. Of particular interest to the researchers were the women’s strategies for living with, and sometimes resisting, such practices. We suggest that further research which elicits such resistant practices and working with women to strengthen them could be useful for people interested in notions of inclusion.
AB - This article discusses a small in-depth research study with five women who have an intellectual disability. Recognising the potential limitations of narrative approaches an inclusive arts-based methodology, supplemented with semi-structured interviews, and was employed to enable the women to speak for themselves about issues that were of interest to them. Thematic analysis of the data showed that the women experienced practices of social and emotional exclusion, and inclusion, in their everyday lives. While disappointing, this is not surprising. Of particular interest to the researchers were the women’s strategies for living with, and sometimes resisting, such practices. We suggest that further research which elicits such resistant practices and working with women to strengthen them could be useful for people interested in notions of inclusion.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/540481
U2 - 10.1080/09687599.2011.618731
DO - 10.1080/09687599.2011.618731
M3 - Article
SN - 0968-7599
VL - 26
SP - 795
EP - 807
JO - Disability and Society
JF - Disability and Society
IS - 7
ER -