Kelley Johnson

Women with Intellectual Disabilities

Finding a Place in the World
Herausgeber: Traustadottir, Rannveig; Johnson, Kelley

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first comprehensive exploration of the issues affecting the lives of women with intellectual disabilities. Women from all over the world have collaborated to write about their lives, their experiences and their hopes for the future. Different aspects of life - work, family, relationships and more - are discussed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 157mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781853028465
• ISBN-10: 1853028460
• Artikelnr.: 21181905

Autorenporträt

Kelley Johnson is Professor of Disability, Policy and Practice at the University of Bristol, and Director of the Norah Fry Research Centre. Rannveig Traustadottir is Associate Professor at the University of Iceland where she teaches about research methods and minority issues, and does research with women with disabilities and other minority women. She has worked with women with intellectual disabilities for more than two decades as an advocate, direst care worker and researcher.

Inhaltsangabe

Finding a place... PART ONE: FINDING A PLACE IN FAMILIES 1.What is life
like? 2.Discovering a sister. 3.Coming home. 4.Unhappy families: Violence
in the lives of girls and women. 5.Life without parents: Experiences of
older women with intellectual disabilities. PART TWO: FINDING A PLACE IN
RELATIONSHIPS 6.Family, marriage, friends and work: This is my life.
7.Learning from and with women; The story of Jenny. 8.Friendship: Love or
work. 9.Consent and choices: Women with intellectual disabilities and
sexuality. PART THREE: FINDING A PLACE IN WORK 10.We like working.
11.Gina's story. 12.My leadership career. 13.The social meaning of work:
Listening to women's own experiences. 14.Caring: A place in the world? PART
FOUR: FINDING A PLACE IN COMMUNITIES 15.My life in L'Arche. 16.Intersecting
cultures: Women of colour with intellectual disabilities. 17.Thirty nine
months under the Disability discrimination act. 18.Motherhood, family and
community life. ...in the World. References. Index.