Disability as a fluid state

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Barnartt, Sharon N.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
• Σειρά: Research in social science and disability ; 5.
• Θέματα: Sociology of disability.; People with disabilities.

Disability is often described in a way that suggests that it is most often a permanent state. Many concepts and models of disability suggest this. Even when it is described as being socially constructed, the implication is that an impairment leads to a permanent status of disabled within that social...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Disability as a fluid state : introduction / Sharon N. Barnartt
• 'Feeling normal' and 'feeling disabled' / Mary Jo Deegan
• Out of a coma and into a wheelchair : social and physical accessibility and the construction of disabled identity / Jay Chaskes
• At the interstices of classification : notes on the category of disability in sub-Saharan Africa / Patrick J. Devlieger
• A relational approach to the development of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities / Allison C. Carey
• From 'survival of the fittest' to 'fitness for all' to 'who defines fitness anyway?' : 100 years of (U.S.) sociological theory on disability / Corinne Kirchner
• Regarding disability : perceptions of protection under the Americans with disabilities act / Pepper K. Mueller, Jeffrey A. Houser, Mark D. Riddle
• 'Sit home and collect the check' : race, class, and the social construction of disability identity / Deborah L. Little
• Activism, models, identities, and opportunities : a preliminary test of a typology of disability orientations / Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, D. Alex Heckert
• Deaf women's work experiences : negotiating gender, ability, and theories of resistance / Cheryl Najarian Souza
• Why does growth hurt? The dual role of normalization and stigmatization in the experience of growth hormone treatment / Leslie Rott
• Disproportionality : a sociological perspective on the identification by schools of students with learning disabilities / Dara Shifrer, Chandra Muller, Rebecca Callahan.