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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. There are contributions from thirteen different countries bringing together established and emerging writers, both disabled and nondisabled. The book bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature and offers a unique analysis of the relationship between disability and generation in a changing world.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

In English.

Contents

• 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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Other title(s)

Disability and the Life Course: Global Perspectives

OCLC

726827356

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