Disability and identity : negotiating self in a changing society / / Rosalyn Benjamin Darling

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463750003321
• Autore: Darling Rosalyn Benjamin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-58826-864-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Collana: Disability in Society
• Disciplina: 305.9/08
• Soggetti: People with disabilities; Group identity; Sociology of disability; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Book Title""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Table 4.1 A Typology of Identities Among African Americans with Disabilities""; ""Figure 5.1 The Path of Identity Change in Becoming a Disability Activist""; ""Table 6.1 Modes of Adaptation Among Parents of Children with Disabilities""; ""Table 6.2 A Typology of Disability Orientations""; ""Table 7.1 Summary of Exploratory Factor Analysis Results for the QDIO Using Varimax Rotation""; ""Table 7.2 Cluster Centers and Their Meaning for Each Factor""; ""Table 7.3 Dominant Demographic and Behavioral Characteristics of Each Cluster""; ""Table 7.4 Characteristics of Each Orientation for Four Variables""""Table 8.1 Bivariate Relationships Between Age and QDIO Items and Nonscale Items""; ""Table 8.2 Means of Disability Factors by Age Categories""; ""Table 8.3 OLS Regressions for the Four Disability Factors""; ""Figure 9.1 Common Careers of Disability Orientation""; ""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""