Part I. Concepts: 1. Introduction: the global context of disability Mark
Priestley; 2. Repositioning disability and the life course: a social
claiming perspective Sarah Irwin; 3. Marginalisation and disability:
experiences from the Third World Anita Ghai; 4. Where do we draw the line?:
surviving eugenics in a technological world Gregor Wolbring; 5. A
complicated struggle: disability, survival and social change in the
majority world Emma Stone; Part II. Methods and Stories: 6. Life event
histories and the US independent living moment Devva Kasnitz; 7. A journey
of discovery Swapna McNeil; 8. Using life story narratives to understand
disability and identity in South Africa Ruth Morgan; 9. Social change and
self empowerment: stories of disabled people in Russia Elena
Iarskia-Smirnova; 10. Lifting the Iron Curtain Kaido Kikkas; 11. Revisiting
deaf transitions Mairian Corker; 12. The hidden injuries of 'a slight limp'
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman; Part III. The Politics of Transition: 13. Disabled
children: an emergency submerged Sue Philpott and Washeila Sait; 14.
Failing to make the transition? Theorising the 'transition to adulthood'
for young disabled people Kay Tisdall; 15. Breaking my head in the prime of
my life: acquired disability in young adulthood Allison Rowlands; 16. Work
and adulthood: economic survival in the majority world Majid Turmusani; 17.
The possibility of choice: women with intellectual disabilities talk about
having children Kelley Johnson, Rannveig Traustadóttir, Lyn Harrison, Lynne
Hillier and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir; 18. Ageing with disability in
Japan Miho Iwakuma; 19. Ageing with intellectual disabilities; discovering
disability with old age: same or different? Nancy Breitenbach; 20. Epilogue
Mark Priestley.
