Disability and Identity : : Negotiating Self in a Changing Society / / Rosalyn Benjamin Darling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Darling, Rosalyn Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Disability in Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (189 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- 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