Marginalised Women and Access to Health and Social Care
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Policy and Welfare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 December 2026 | Viewed by 351
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiple disadvantages in women self-harm in adults marginalised groups and communities; peer support; feminist inquiry; inclusive methodologies
Interests: mental health and wellbeing; reciprocity and social relationships; women and young people; participatory arts; participatory research; feminist research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce this call for a Special Issue showcasing current research, debate, theoretical positioning and critical reflection that illuminates the intersecting inequalities that marginalised women globally face in accessing health and social care. This Special Issue comes at a time when the compounding effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic instability, conflict and climate change have made access to health and social care in many contexts worse for marginalised women globally. Women who experience exclusion and intersecting identities and disadvantages face poorer health outcomes, reduced life expectancy and frequently disappear into the gaps between health and social care services. This Special Issue aims to interrogate the structural inequalities that marginalised women experience globally and how the intersections of identity often compound disadvantage and access to health and social care.
We are calling for papers that explore and extend the evidence base on the lived experiences of marginalised women's access to health and social care and which illuminate more meaningful ways services/practitioners can meet their intersecting needs and disadvantages. We encourage submissions from practitioners as well as academics, early career researchers and established authors.
Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Focus on intersecting identities and disadvantages compounding access and outcomes.
- Focus on neglected geographic and contextual gaps, such as climate-affected settings, fragile/conflict settings.
- Focus on inclusive methodologies that illuminate systemic barriers, structures and policies facing marginalised women's access to health and social care.
- Focus on learning from practice about the organisational and wider sociopolitical contexts that create barriers to supporting marginalised women.
- Focus on critical theoretical reflections and arguments relating to marginalised women and access to health and social care.
Dr. Melanie Jane Boyce
Dr. Anna Dadswell
Dr. Claire Hooks
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marginalised women
- multiple disadvantages
- health and social care
- intersecting identities
- lived experiences
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