Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society (Disability in Society) - Softcover

Darling, Rosalyn Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626378185 ISBN 13: 9781626378186

Verlag: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Rosalyn Darling offers a sweeping examination of disability and identity, parsing the shifting forces that have shaped individual and societal understandings of ability and impairment across time. Darling focuses on the relationship between societal views and the self-conceptions of people with mental and physical impairments. She also illuminates the impact of the disability rights movement, life-course dynamics, and race and gender in creating a diversity of disability identities. Her seminal work reveals the remarkable resilience of individuals in the face of profound social and material barriers, at the same time that it enhances our understanding of the construction and experience of "difference" in our changing society.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction.
• Stigma and Acceptance over Time.
• Societal Views and Self-Conceptions.
• Intersecting Identities Among Women and African Americans with Disabilities.
• The Disability Rights Movement and Identity Politics.
• The Diversity of Disability Orientations.
• Measuring Disability Identity and Orientation.
• Identity over the Life Course.
• Disability and Identity: Past, Present, Future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rosalyn Benjamin Darling is professor emeritus of sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1626378185
• ISBN 13: 9781626378186
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 189
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