Women with Intellectual Disabilities : Finding a Place in the World

by Rannveig Traustadottir; Johnson, Kelley

• ISBN13: 9781853028465
• ISBN10: 1853028460
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	8	(1)
Finding a place...	9	(16)
Kelley Johnson
PART I: FINDING A PLACE IN FAMILIES	25	(62)
What is life like?	28	(6)
Tamara Kainova
Maria Cerna
Discovering a sister	34	(18)
Rosemary West
Coming home	52	(11)
Janka
Jana Hankova
Sonia Holubkova
Unhappy families: Violence in the lives of girls and women	63	(6)
Missy Morton
Life without parents: Experiences of older women with intellectual disabilities	69	(18)
Christine Bigby
PART II: FINDING A PLACE IN RELATIONSHIPS	87	(70)
Family, marriage, friends and work: This is my life	90	(16)
Janice Slattery
Kelley Johnson
Learning from and with women: The story of Jenny	106	(12)
Kristjana Kristiansen
Friendship: Love or work?	118	(14)
Rannveig Traustadottir
Consent, abuse and choices: Women with intellectual disabilities and sexuality	132	(25)
Michelle McCarthy
PART III: FINDING A PLACE IN WORK	157	(56)
We like working	160	(2)
Tamara Kainova
Maria Cerna
Gina's story	162	(10)
Sonia Teuben
Maude Davey
My leadership career	172	(10)
Nancy Ward
Bonnie Shoultz
The social meaning of work: Listening to women's own experiences	182	(9)
Kristjana Kristiansen
Caring: A place in the world?	191	(22)
Jan Walmsley
PART IV: FINDING A PLACE IN COMMUNITIES	213	(66)
My life in L'Arche	217	(12)
Pat Felt
Pam Walker
Intersecting cultures: Women of color with intellectual disabilities	229	(10)
Susan O'Connor
Ellen Fisher
Debra Robinson
Thirty nine months under the Disability Discrimination Act	239	(14)
Amanda Millear
Kelley Johnson
Motherhood, family and community life	253	(26)
Hanna Bjorg Sigurjonsdottir
Rannveig Traustadottir
...in the world	271	(8)
Kelley Johnson
List of contributors	279	(5)
References	284	(13)
Subject Index	297	(4)
Name Index	301