Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society

Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society
ISBN-10
1588268640
ISBN-13
9781588268648
Category
Social Science
Pages
189
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Pub
Author
Rosalyn Benjamin Darling

Description

Rosalyn Darling offers a sweeping examination of disability identity, tracing its history and 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.

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