INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
21 SEPTEMBER 2017
University of Genoa
Aula Magna Giurisprudenza
Via Balbi, 5 – Genova, Italy
The workshop aims to promote an international exchange of theoretical reflection, research and case studies about women and disability, in order to individuate and confront current perspectives and best practices in different disciplines. The workshop will host experts at European level in the fields linked to disability to discuss on disability under different point of views: social, psychological, political, medical, but above all technological.
The focus will be the woman with disability, together with the gendered approach to her social condition and technological knowledge.
SESSION II will focus on: DISABILITY AND GENDER PERSPECTIVES
Moderator Cinzia Leone
Noemi Bitterman Technion, Haifa, Israel
Physiological and human factors related to women, in particular for women
with disability
Idil Seda Ak Association of Women With Disabilities, Ankara, Turkey
Women with disability and the UN
Rita Bencivenga LEGS Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité,
UMR 8238: CNRS – Paris 8 – Paris OUEST
Gender studies, disability studies: a cross fertilisation
Susanna Pozzolo University of Brescia, Italy
From the strabismus of Venus to the heel of Achilles. Strength lies in differences
