Sexuality, Mothering, Disabled Female Bodies The First Research Findings of Feminist Disability Studies in Hungary

Abstract

This study explores the lives of women with physical disabilities in the Hungarian context. Within the constraints of phallocentric normalcy narrow and stigmatizing stereotypes, institutional barriers prevent women with disabilities from exercising their rights, unfolding and expressing their femininity. At the level of everyday existence their marginalization and discrimination as irregular, deviant, excluded bodies not possessing social, economic or cultural capital is perpetuated. Our research findings are based on the narrative interviews conducted by Ilona Hernádi. Following a brief theoretical introduction to feminist disability studies the aforementioned interviews lead us to the rhizomatic reconstruction of a new narrative employing a fresh perspective in narrative analysis.