How and where? The violence against woman with disabilities in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Veloso da Veiga, Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Campos Pinto, Paula, Da Conceição Quinteiro, Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28869
• topic: Violence. Women with disabilities. Discrimination. Portugal.

This paper addresses the issue of violence against women with disabilities in Portugal. It draws from the reports of 28 women with all types of disabilities about the ill treatment and discrimination that they experienced, over the last ive years. We identiied the various types of violence these women had faced (Physical, sexual, psychological, economic, institutional, bullying at work and symbolic) and the places where it occur (Public transport, family, workplace, school and training organizations, health organizations, social space in general). Dependency emerges as the key driver of the conlicts and ill treatment that generated the most serious forms of violence and the humiliations that were perpetrated against these women.