Withdrawn, strong, kind, but de-gendered: Non-disabled South Africans’ stereotypes concerning persons with physical disabilities

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Hunt, Xanthe, Carew, Mark, Braathen, Stine Hellum, Swartz, Leslie, Chiwaula, Mussa and Rohleder, P. 2018. Withdrawn, strong, kind, but de-gendered: Non-disabled South Africans’ stereotypes concerning persons with physical disabilities. Disability and Society. 33 (10), pp. 1579-1600. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2018.1498768

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Authors	Hunt, Xanthe, Carew, Mark, Braathen, Stine Hellum, Swartz, Leslie, Chiwaula, Mussa and Rohleder, P.
Abstract	The present paper examines stereotyping in relation to physical disability and gender in the South Africa. Cross-sectional data for the present study were gathered using free response items in a large survey (n = 1990) examining the attitudes of people without disability towards different facetsof sexuality and disability. The most prominent stereotypes found in thepresent study were those which characterised PWPD as withdrawn and shy, SuperCrips, or happy, funny, and kind. The findings in the present papersuggest that stereotypes of PWPD are not overwhelmingly de-sexualising, but are undifferentiated by gender.
Journal	Disability and Society
Journal citation	33 (10), pp. 1579-1600
ISSN	0968-7599
Year	2018
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Accepted author manuscript	Acepted manuscript - Disability and Society.pdf License All rights reserved
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2018.1498768
Web address (URL)	https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2018.1498768
Online	16 Nov 2018
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Deposited	20 Jul 2018
Accepted	23 May 2018
Accepted	23 May 2018
Funder	International Foundation of Applied Disability Research
	National Research Foundation
	International Foundation of Applied Disability Research
	National Research Foundation
Copyright information	© 2018 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Disbility and Society on 16/11/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09687599.2018.1498768.

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