Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society (Disability in Society)

by Rosalyn Benjamin Darling

Book Overview

Rosalyn Darling offers a sweeping examination of disability identity, tracing its history and 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626378185
• ISBN13: 9781626378186
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"