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 [and others] -- 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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This 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. 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.