Redressing Reproductive Violence Against Women with Disability

Project Member(s): Steele, L.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Women with Disabilities Australia
Women with Disabilities Australia

Start year: 2023

Summary: This project aims to identify key dimensions of a framework for individual redress and social repair of reproductive violence against women with disability. The project will identify existing administrative schemes worldwide for: individual redress and social repair of: (a) reproductive violence against women with disability, (b) reproductive violence against other marginalised communities, (c) eugenics, and (d) gendered violence. Identified schemes will be analysed for aspects of good and bad design and practice, particularly in relation to inclusivity, accessibility, and intersectionality. Based on the analysis a series of recommendations will be provided. Project outputs: (a) journal article targeted at a feminist law journal, and (b) briefing paper on redress.

Publications:

Steele, L Women with Disabilities Australia 2024, Redressing Reproductive Violence Against Women with Disability: Justice Beyond the Royal Commission, Hobart.

Steele, L 2023, 'Reparation for Reproductive Violence, Pregnancy and the Law, Stefan Cross Centre for Equality, Women, and the Law workshop, University of Southampton (online)'.

FOR Codes: Law, gender and sexuality (incl. feminist legal scholarship), Law and society and socio-legal research, Law reform, Ability and disability

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.