Hi
(with the usual apologies for promotion and cross-posting) list members may
be interested in the following new book.
Disability and the Life Course: Global Perspectives
Edited by Mark Priestley
Cambridge University Press, June 2001
ISBN: 0 521 79340 8 (hardback), 0 521 79734 9 (paperback)
information and order at
http://uk.cambridge.org/order/WebBook.asp?ISBN=0521797349
Contributors:
Mark Priestley, Sarah Irwin, Anita Ghai, Gregor Wolbring, Emma Stone, Devva
Kasnitz, Swapna McNeil, Ruth Morgan, Elena Iarskia-Smirnova, Kaido Kikkas,
Mairian Corker, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Sue Philpott, Washeila Sait, Kay
Tisdall, Allison Rowlands, Majid Turmusani, Kelley Johnson, Rannveig
Traustadsttir, Lyn Harrison, Lynne Hillier, Hanna Bjvrg Sigurjsnsdsttir,
Miho Iwakuma, Nancy Breitenbach
Description:
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.
Contents:
Part I. Concepts:
1. Introduction: the global context of disability, Mark Priestley
2. Repositioning disability and the life course: a social claiming
perspective, Sarah Irwin
3. Marginalisation and disability: experiences from the Third World, Anita
Ghai
4. Where do we draw the line?: surviving eugenics in a technological world,
Gregor Wolbring
5. A complicated struggle: disability, survival and social change in the
majority world, Emma Stone
Part II. Methods and Stories:
6. Life event histories and the US independent living moment, Devva Kasnitz
7. A journey of discovery, Swapna McNeil
8. Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in
South Africa, Ruth Morgan
9. Social change and self empowerment: stories of disabled people in Russia,
Elena Iarskia-Smirnova
10. Lifting the Iron Curtain, Kaido Kikkas
11. Revisiting deaf transitions, Mairian Corker
12. The hidden injuries of ‘a slight limp’, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Part III. The Politics of Transition:
13. Disabled children: an emergency submerged, Sue Philpott and Washeila
Sait
14. Failing to make the transition? Theorising the ‘transition to adulthood’
for young disabled people, Kay Tisdall
15. Breaking my head in the prime of my life: acquired disability in young
adulthood, Allison Rowlands
16. Work and adulthood: economic survival in the majority world, Majid
Turmusani
17. The possibility of choice: women with intellectual disabilities talk
about having children, Kelley Johnson, Rannveig Traustadsttir, Lyn Harrison,
Lynne Hillier and Hanna Bjvrg Sigurjsnsdsttir
18. Ageing with disability in Japan, Miho Iwakuma
19. Ageing with intellectual disabilities; discovering disability with old
age: same or different?, Nancy Breitenbach
20. Epilogue, Mark Priestley.
Best Wishes
Mark Priestley
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
tel: +44 113 233 4417
fax: +44 113 233 4415
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies
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