ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the differential enactment of ‘justice’ in the spaces where gender, disability and violence collide. This intersectional experience sees some women with disability excluded and marginalised from processes of justice while for others, intractable systemic enmeshment results. The experiences of two women, explored through case studies, reveals contradictory processes of exclusion and entrenchment which highlight the ambivalence of justice and its systems in apprehending, encompassing and responding to intersectionality. The chapter concludes with consideration of issues of recognition and redress as key mandates for practical justice in gendered disability violence.