Disability and the Life Course: Global Perspectives

by Edited by Mark Priestley

• ISBN13: 9780521793407
• ISBN10: 0521793408
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Disability and the Life Course explores the global experience of disability using a novel life course approach. The book explores how disabling societies impact on disabled people's life experiences, and highlights the ways in which disabled people have acted to take more control over their own lives. It provides a unique combination of analysis, policy issues and autobiography, offering the reader a rare opportunity to make links between the theoretical, the political and the personal in a single volume. The material is set in a truly international context, with contributions from thirteen different countries bringing together established and emerging writers, both disabled and non-disabled. The book bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages and with different kinds of impairments and also by offering a unique analysis of the relationship between disability and generation in a changing world.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	x
Notes on contributors	xi
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xvi
A brief note on terminology	xvii
I Concepts
Introduction: the global context of disability	3	(12)
Mark Priestley
Repositioning disability and the life course: a social claiming perspective	15	(11)
Sarah Irwin
Marginalisation and disability: experiences from the Third World	26	(12)
Anita Ghai
Where do we draw the line?: surviving eugenics in a technological world	38	(12)
Gregor Wolbring
A complicated struggle: disability, survival and social change in the majority world	50	(17)
Emma Stone
II Methods and stories
Life event histories and the US independent living movement	67	(12)
Devva Kasnitz
A journey of discovery	79	(10)
Swapna Mcneil
Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in South Africa	89	(12)
Ruth Morgan
Social change and self-empowerment: stories of disabled people in Russia	101	(12)
Elena Iarskia-Smirnova
Lifting the Iron Curtain	113	(10)
Kaido Kikkas
Revisiting deaf transitions	123	(13)
Mairian Corker
The hidden injuries of `a slight limp'	136	(15)
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
III The politics of transition
Disabled children: an emergency submerged	151	(16)
Sue Philpott
Washeila Sait
Failing to make the transition? Theorising the `transition to adulthood' for young disabled people	167	(12)
Kay Tisdall
Breaking my head in the prime of my life: acquired disability in young adulthood	179	(13)
Allison Rowlands
Work and adulthood: economic survival in the majority world	192	(14)
Majid Turmusani
The possibility of choice: women with intellectual disabilities talk about having children	206	(13)
Kelley Johnson
Rannveig Traustadottir
Lyn Harrison
Lynne Hillier
Hanna Bjorg Sigurjonsdottir
Ageing with disability in Japan	219	(12)
Miho Iwakuma
Ageing with intellectual disabilities; discovering disability with old age: same or different?	231	(9)
Nancy Breitenbach
Epilogue	240	(9)
Mark Priestley
Index	249