Doppelt geschützt, dreifach benachteiligt. Frauen mit Behinderung am Arbeitsmarkt: Theoretische Begriffsklärungen

Abstract

This article deals with the disabilities-employment nexus. Based on an empirical survey of employability of women with disabilities in the Italian province of South Tyrol in 1993, it provides both significant scientific results on the topic, as well as dealing with the theoretical weaknesses and gaps in social science research at the time in Central Europe. At the end of the 20th century, studies on disabilities largely ignored issues related to gender and sexuality. Inversely, work done in the fields of women’s, men’s and gender studies rarely dealt with the problems facing the ‘handicapped’, as they were commonly referred to at this time. The reader will find out more about both the interface between gender, race, social class, sexual orientation, ethnicity and disabilities, on the one hand, and be provided with a glimpse into the early phases of intersectionality discourse in the German speaking world, on the other hand.