Disability and the Life Course Global Perspectives

Name: Disability and the Life Course Global Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780521797344

ISBN-10: 0521797349

ISBN-13: 9780521797344

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mark Priestley

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Disability and the Life Course explores the global experience of disability using a novel life course approach. The book explores how disabling societies impact on disabled people's life experiences, and highlights the ways in which disabled people have acted to take more control over their own lives. It provides a unique combination of analysis, policy issues and autobiography, offering the reader a rare opportunity to make links between the theoretical, the political and the personal in a single volume. The material is set in a truly international context, with contributions from thirteen different countries bringing together established and emerging writers, both disabled and…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Mark Priestley is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling, UK.




Concepts



Introduction: the global context of disability




Repositioning disability and the life course: a social claiming perspective




Marginalisation and disability: experiences from the Third World




Where do we draw the line?: surviving eugenics in a technological world




A complicated struggle: disability, survival and social change in the majority world




Methods and Stories



Life event histories and the US independent living moment




A journey of discovery




Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in South Africa




Social change and self empowerment: stories of disabled people in Russia




Lifting the Iron Curtain




Revisiting deaf transitions




The hidden injuries of 'a slight limp'




The Politics of Transition




Failing to make the transition? Theorising the 'transition to adulthood' for young disabled people




Breaking my head in the prime of my life: acquired disability in young adulthood




Work and adulthood: economic survival in the majority world




he possibility of choice: women with intellectual disabilities talk about having children Kelley Johnson




Ageing with disability in Japan




Ageing with intellectual disabilities; discovering disability with old age: same or different




Epilogue