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PIECZKOWSKI, Tania Mara Zancanaro  e  GAVENDA, Marizete Lurdes. Narratives of Women with Visual Disability. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2021, vol.27, e0171.  Epub 02-Mar-2021. ISSN 1980-5470.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-54702021v27e0171.

This study aimed to know the life trajectory of women with visual impairment, in relation to accessibility and social inclusion processes. Being an inclusive society imposes great challenges, especially in the specific context of being a woman with visual impairment in times of a neoliberal logic that diffuses the narrative of competitiveness and individual merit. The research problem was: How do women with visual impairment narrate their life trajectories in relation to processes of accessibility and social inclusion? The study was supported by theoretical references on the understanding of the historical process of exclusion/inclusion of people with disabilities, specifically blind or low vision women. The research locus was the Association for the Visually Impaired of Western Santa Catarina (Associação de Deficientes Visuais do Oeste de Santa Catarina - ADEVOSC), located in the city of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, and through recorded and transcribed narrative interviews, eight women with visual impairment were approached. The narratives were organized into thematic clusters considering recurrence and relevance and examined based on discourse analysis with foucaultian references, especially from the notions of subjectivity and power. The study shows that disability is not only in the human being who has it, but also in the social contexts that segregate, regulate and normalize it; in the lack of accessibility; in the limited access to assistive technologies. In addition, this study also shows that the coexistence of visually impaired women in ADEVOSC strengthens them as a group and generates a sense of belonging.

Palavras-chave : Special Education; Women with visual impairment; Inclusion; Accessibility.

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