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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darling, Rosalyn Benjamin, author.

Series:

Disability in society.

Disability in Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities.

Group identity.

Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! 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.

Contents:

""Book Title""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Table 4.1 A Typology of Identities Among African Americans with Disabilities""; ""Figure 5.1 The Path of Identity Change in Becoming a Disability Activist""; ""Table 6.1 Modes of Adaptation Among Parents of Children with Disabilities""; ""Table 6.2 A Typology of Disability Orientations""; ""Table 7.1 Summary of Exploratory Factor Analysis Results for the QDIO Using Varimax Rotation""; ""Table 7.2 Cluster Centers and Their Meaning for Each Factor""; ""Table 7.3 Dominant Demographic and Behavioral Characteristics of Each Cluster""

""Table 7.4 Characteristics of Each Orientation for Four Variables""""Table 8.1 Bivariate Relationships Between Age and QDIO Items and Nonscale Items""; ""Table 8.2 Means of Disability Factors by Age Categories""; ""Table 8.3 OLS Regressions for the Four Disability Factors""; ""Figure 9.1 Common Careers of Disability Orientation""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-Introduction""; ""2-Stigma and Acceptance over Time""; ""3-Societal Views and Self-Conceptions""; ""4-Intersecting Identities Among Women and African Americans with Disabilities""; ""5-The Disability Rights Movement and Identity Politics""

""6-The Diversity of Disability Orientations""""7-Measuring Disability Identity and Orientation""; ""8-Identity over the Life Course""; ""9-Disability and Identity: Past, Present, and Future""; ""Appendix: Questionnaire on Disability Identity and Opportunity""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Books in the Series""; ""About the Book""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58826-864-0

OCLC:

923218933