The intersection of autism/disabilities along with gender within our society.
The essay is about the intersection of autism/disablities along with gender within our society. How it is refelcted perhaps in media, and how they are represented along neurodivergent counterparts. Talk about the dynamics within the marginalized community perhaps bringing up race and class as another “oppressive” label, the issues that this community has, and possible solutions or progress we have made as a society.Identify an issue (or problem, or dynamic), which is of particular interest to you, or which you have noticed recurring in your readings.
Choose two to three readings from the first 5 weeks of the course (from January 19 up to February 16) in which this issue is particularly evident.
Discuss how each text approaches the issue, taking care to highlight their insights and limitations in relation to each other or in relation to the main problem you have highlighted. Draw your own conclusions.
Sample Solution
While there is a growing interest in the confluence of disability and gender, there is still a scarcity of study and data on the subject. This lack of research may help to explain the’myths’ presented around women with disabilities, as described by Janet Price and Nidhi Goyal: ‘who are almost universally believed to be: living in poverty, often on the verge of destitution; without work and without education, thus lacking skills to support themselves; subject to widespread magical beliefs of fate and misfortune, even of being witches; asexual and unable t
