Disability and Identity
Negotiating Self in a Changing Society
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
189 pages
978-1-62637-818-6 (ISBN)
Description
The author 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.
The author focuses on the relationship between societal views and the self-conceptions of people with mental and physical impairments. The author 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.
The author focuses on the relationship between societal views and the self-conceptions of people with mental and physical impairments. The author 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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Person
Rosalyn Benjamin Darling is professor emeritus of sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Content
Stigma and Acceptance over Time. Societal Views and Self-Conceptions. Intersecting Identities Among Women and African Americans with Disabilities. The Disability Rights Movement and Identity Politics. The Diversity of Disability Orientations. Measuring Disability Identity and Orientation. Identity over the Life Course. Disability and Identity: Past, Present, Future.