Double Jeopardy

Harilyn Rousso is Executive Director of Disabilities Unlimited Consulting Services. She is the author of Disabled, Female, and Proud!: Stories of Ten Women with Disabilities, with Susan Gushee O'Malley and Mary Severance. Michael L. Wehmeyer is Research Associate Professor and Director, Beach Center on Families and Disability, University of Kansas. He is the coauthor, with Martin Agran and Carolyn Hughes, of Teaching Self-Determination to Students with Disabilities: Basic Skills for Successful Transition.

"This book is unique in that it focuses on gender equity and disability equity with additional important attention to race, age, and economic issues that contribute to multiple types of inequitable educational treatments and outcomes." — Susan Shurberg Klein, editor of Sex Equity and Sexuality in Education

• Contributors ForewordMichelle Fine Acknowledgments IntroductionHarilyn Rousso and Michael L. Wehmeyer SECTION 1. Gender and Disability 1. Beyond Pedestals: The Lives of Girls and Women with DisabilitiesAdrienne Asche, with Harilyn Rousso and Taran Jefferies 2. Won't You Know All of Me? Recognizing the Confluence of Disability, Gender, and EthnicityEric Jolly SECTION II. Gender Issues in the Education of All Students 3. Gender Equity in Education: Change and ChallengeKatherine Hanson and Susan J. Smith 4. Title IX: What Does It Mean for Teachers?Melissa Keyes 5. She Bakes and He Builds: Gender Bias in the CurriculumSusan Shaffer and Linda Shevitz 6. Can She Really Do Science? Gender Disparities in Math and Science EducationEllen Wahl 7. Squeaky Wheels versus Invisibility: Gender Bias in Teacher-Student InteractionsDolores A. Grayson 8. Stopping Sexual Harasssment in SchoolsEleanor Linn and Harilyn Rousso 9. Schools Fail Boys Too: Exposing the Con of Traditional MasculinityCraig Flood 10. Teaching as though Both Genders Count: Guidelines for Designing Nonsexist Inclusive CurriculaTheresa Mickey McCormick 11. Uncovering Bias in the Classroom: A Personal JourneyMaryann Wickett SECTION III. Gender Issues in the Education of Students with Disabilitites 12. Research in Gender Bias in Special Education ServicesMichael L. Wehmeyer and Michelle Schwartz 13. Gender Equity Issues in the Vocational and Transition Services and Employment Outcomes Experienced by Young Women with DisabilitiesBonnie Doren and Michael Benz 14. Nothing to Do after School: More of an Issue for GirlsMerle Froschl, Harilyn Rousso, and Ellen Rubin 15. What Do Frida Kahlo, Wilma Mankiller, and Harriet Tubman Have in Common? Providing Role Models for Girls with (and without) DisabilitiesHarilyn Rousso 16. The Living Out Loud Program: Building Resiliency in Adolescent Girls with DisabilitiesNancy Ferreyra and Estelle Eskenazi SECTION IV. Summary and Future Directions 17. Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education Services: An Agenda for the Twenty-first CenturyMichael L. Wehmeyer and Harilyn Rousso Index