Disability and the life course : global perspectives / edited by Mark Priestley.
Contributor(s): Priestley, Mark
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BookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: xix, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521793408 (hbk); 0521797349 (pbk).Subject(s): People with disabilities | People with disabilities -- Social conditions | People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studiesDDC classification: 305.90816 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 305.90816 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00095207 | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Disability and the Life Course, first published in 2001, 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 non-disabled. The book bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages and with different kinds of impairments and also by offering a unique analysis of the relationship between disability and generation in a changing world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I: Concepts -- II: Methods and stories -- III: The politics of transition.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part I Concepts
- 1 Introduction: the global context of disability
- 2 Repositioning disability and the life course: a social claiming perspective
- 3 Marginalisation and disability: experiences from the Third World
- 4 Where do we draw the line?: surviving eugenics in a technological world
- 5 A complicated struggle: disability, survival and social change in the majority world
- Part II Methods and Stories
- 6 Life event histories and the US independent living moment
- 7 A journey of discovery
- 8 Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in South Africa
- 9 Social change and self empowerment: stories of disabled people in Russia
- 10 Lifting the Iron Curtain
- 11 Revisiting deaf transitions
- 12 The hidden injuries of 'a slight limp'
- Part III The Politics of Transition
- 14 Failing to make the transition? Theorising the 'transition to adulthood' for young disabled people
- 15 Breaking my head in the prime of my life: acquired disability in young adulthood
- 16 Work and adulthood: economic survival in the majority world
- 17 he possibility of choice: women with intellectual disabilities talk about having children Kelley Johnson
- 18 Ageing with disability in Japan
- 19 Ageing with intellectual disabilities; discovering disability with old age: same or different
- 20 Epilogue