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Women With Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World
Jan Walmsley
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Description for Women With Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Traustadottir, Rannveig; Johnson, Kelley. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMRN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
I recommend this book to anyone engaged in working collaboratively with people with the label 'learning difficulty', particularly in women's; groups, self advocacy or rights bases/citizenship concerns. The plain English accounts are accessible, but I also found the main bulk of the text easily translatable and used it extensively in my recent research. For the women involved in this project it provided a framework of reference in which they recognized similar life events and experiences.
Not only does this book fill this gap by providing a frame in which women can examine this exclusion, it also questions the marginalized ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Pub
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853028465
SKU
V9781853028465
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Ref
99-1
About Jan Walmsley
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 ... Read more
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