Disability and Identity : Negotiating Self in a Changing Society.

Intro -- 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.

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