Gendering disability and disabling gender: Critical reflections on intersections of gender and disability

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1. There are discrepancies in the measurement of differences by sex in the two surveys done: Global Burden of Disease, female prevalence is 11% higher than males, but the World Report on Disability estimates 60% more women than men (p. 31). The gap in results requires interrogation. The WHO (2011) explanation is that there was a difference in response categories.

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Kharnita Mohamed

KHARNITA MOHAMED is an anthropologist whose primary research interests lie in the mediation of subject formation, the production of knowledge, gender, race, disability, citizenship and visual culture. She is the co-founder of and runs Blankets for Blikkies, a community-based organisation in Blikkiesdorp. She is currently working on a book about violence and race in post-apartheid South Africa entitled Taxonomies of Violence: Racing the Postapartheid. Email: [email protected]

Tamara Shefer

TAMARA SHEFER is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and currently Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape. Her research is primarily on young heterosexualities, and includes work in the areas of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, masculinities, memory and post-apartheid, gender and care, and social justice in higher education and authorship. Email: [email protected]