Format:
1 online resource (305 pages)
ISBN:
9781846422317
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Women With Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Finding a Place … -- Part I: 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 II: 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, Abuse and Choices: Women With Intellectual Disabilities and Sexuality -- Part III: 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 IV: Finding a Place in Communities -- 15 My Life in L 'Arche -- 16 Intersecting Cultures: Women of Color With Intellectual Disabilities -- 17 Thirty-Nine Months under the Disability Discrimination Act -- 18 Motherhood, Family and Community Life -- …in the World -- The Contributors -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781853028465
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781853028465
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3015858
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