Disability and identity : negotiating self in a changing society / Rosalyn Benjamin Darling.

Disability and identity : negotiating self in a changing society / Rosalyn Benjamin Darling.

9781588268648 hardcover alkaline paper
1588268640 hardcover alkaline paper

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013.

English

xii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.

HV1568 .D367 2013

305.9/08

Rosalyn Darling offers a sweeping examination of disability and identity, 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. -- Publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and index.

Disability in society.

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