Disability and the life course : global perspectives / edited by Mark Priestley.

This book explores the global experience of disability using a novel life course approach. It provides a unique combination of analysis, policy issues and autobiography, offering the reader a rare opportunity to make links among the theoretical, the political and the personal in a single volume. The...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Priestley, Mark, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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505 0 |a I. Concepts. Introduction : the global context of disability / Mark Priestley ; Repositioning disability and the life course : a social claiming perspective / Sarah Irwin ; Marginalisation and disability : experiences from the Third World / Anita Ghai ; Where do we draw the line? Surviving eugenics in a technological world / Gregor Wolbring ; A complicated struggle : disability, survival and social change in the majority world / Emma Stone -- II. Methods and stories. Life event histories and the US independent living movement / Devva Kasnitz ; A journey of discovery / Swapna McNeil ; Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in South Africa / Ruth Morgan ; Social change and self-empowerment : stories of disabled people in Russia / Elena Iarskia-Smirnova ; Lifting the Iron Curtain / Kaido Kikkas -- Revisiting deaf transitions / Mairian Corker ; The hidden injuries of 'a slight limp' / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- III. The politics of transition. Disabled children : an emergency submerged / Sue Philpott and Washeila Sait ; Failing to make the transition? Theorising the 'transition to adulthood' for young disabled people / Kay Tisdall ; Breaking my head in the prime of my life : acquired disability in young adulthood / Allison Rowlands ; Work and adulthood : economic survival in the majority world / Majid Turmusani ; The possibility of choice : women with intellectual disabilities talk about having children / Kelley Johnson [and others] ; Ageing with disability in Japan / Miho Iwakuma ; Ageing with intellectual disabilities : discovering disability with old age : same or different? / Nancy Breitenbach. 
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