Disability and the life course : global perspectives / edited by Mark Priestley. - 264p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Introduction : the global context of disability / Mark Priestley -- Repositioning disability and the life course : a social claiming perspective / Sarah Irwin -- Marginalisation and disability : experiences from the Third World / Anita Ghai -- Where do we draw the line? Surviving eugenics in a technological world / Gregor Wolbring -- A complicated struggle : disability, survival and social change in the majority world / Emma Stone -- Life event histories and the US independent living movement / Devva Kasnitz -- A journey of discovery / Swapna McNeil -- Using life story narratives to understand disability and identity in South Africa / Ruth Morgan -- Social change and self-empowerment : stories of disabled people in Russia / Elena Iarskia-Smirnova -- Lifting the Iron Curtain / Kaido Kikkas -- Revisiting deaf transitions / Mairian Corker -- The hidden injuries of 'a slight limp' / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- Disabled children : an emergency submerged / Sue Philpott and Washeila Sait -- Failing to make the transition? Theorising the 'transition to adulthood' for young disabled people / Kay Tisdall -- Breaking my head in the prime of my life : acquired disability in young adulthood / Allison Rowlands -- Work and adulthood : economic survival in the majority world / Majid Turmusani -- The possibility of choice : women with intellectual disabilities talk about having children / Kelley Johnson ... [et al.] -- Ageing with disability in Japan / Miho Iwakuma -- Ageing with intellectual disabilities : discovering disability with old age : same or different? / Nancy Breitenbach.

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Sociology of disability
People with disabilities--Biography
People with disabilities--Cross-cultural studies

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