Identity and invisibility in the analysis of violence against women with disabilities

Abstract

This article tries to make visible the situations of violence to which women with disabilities are often subjected, due to the fact that they are a woman and have a disability. A violence that goes beyond the private sphere where we usually frame what we usually call gender violence, and that is sometimes difficult to identify, since it is normalized not only by society, but also by the environment of women and even sometimes by herself. To achieve our objective, we analyze the few existing figures that show the virulence of this violence, and we pay attention to the factors and the main consequences that make up these situations in the life trajectory of these women, starting from the premise of the ignorance that exists of their reality and their needs, as a sustaining factor of the discrimination to which they are subjected.