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Speaking to an audience in Agassiz Hall, Saxton stressed the need to create adult role models for disabled women. Saxton is director of the Project on Women and Disabilities at the State Office on Handicapped Affairs...
Feminists concerned with preventing discrimination against women should expand their goals to include women who face the double challenge of being women in a male-oriented society and dealing with a disability, disabled advocate Marsha Saxton said in a talk last night...
...think what we need to do is to educate the public about what we as disabled women can do, and what our dreams and aspirations consist of," said Saxton, who is herself disabled by a curvature of the spine. "We need to persuade parents of disabled children that the future can hold for that child anything that she can aspire...
...Saxton is the author of a newly-released book, "With Wings," an anthology of the experiences of women with disabilities. "In 1971 I was in a women's bookstore and just happened to pick up the book 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' [by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective]." The book discusses women's sexual politics and roles. "I realized that with my disability I just didn't fit into that book. I knew that the clear goal that loomed before me was to define feminism in terms that women with disabilities could relate...
Hughes and Saxton pointed to a series of pollution problems this summer that led to the closing of some New Jersey beaches, threatening the tourism and fishing industries as well as the environment...