ABSTRACT
This article has its roots in a series of seminars on Researching Physical Disability, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. As a feminist I should have felt a sense of unity with other feminist researchers attending the seminars and there certainly were occasions when a sense of sisterly solidarity prevailed against the way that some of the male participants operated. As a disabled woman, however, I felt a deep sense of alienation from the nondisabled feminists present and anger that there seemed to be an assumption that they were ‘on the same side’ as me. This alienation and anger comes from the failure of feminism to integrate the concerns of disabled women into its theory, methodology, research and politics.
