Disable Women and Interaction with Society (a qualitative study on social life of disable women)

Disable women are a special social group who may be deprived from many social opportunities just due to physical impairment. It is important to focus on their social interactions with the able people. Understanding their social interaction and their social problems in interpersonal as well as institutional relationships may help us to know their social state and to know how they adjust their personal life within the social context in daily life. Methodologically¡ this study is a qualitative research which has adopted Focus Group method to collect data among the physical disable women in Bukan city¡ a Kurdish city in West Azerbaijan province. Findings show that disable women encounter with different problems in their daily social life including double interaction and intensified deprivations. In this context¡ from one hand¡ they have succeeded to redefine themselves and on the other hand¡ they are undertaking common self-empowerment and active resistance.