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Disability on Equal Terms presents an authoritative collection of writings that examine and challenge traditional notions of disability. Edited and written by leading experts in the field, the book offers a multidisciplinary approach to disability studies, incorporating perspectives from a wide range of health and social care services, as well as a distinct and unique emphasis on the personal testimonies of disabled people themselves.
Disabled People's Testimonies
Disabled People's Testimonies
There are numerous means, modes, contexts – ways for affirming identity. This chapter presents four testimonies by disabled people. We (the editors) selected this term as it has positive connotations. In the Introduction to a book subtitled ‘Testimonies of Resistance’, Mitchell explains the use of the term as ‘partly due to the nature of the stories, which give examples of struggle against prevailing ideas and practices’ (2006: 7). The testimonies in this chapter are examples of struggles of transition towards an identity as a disabled person, against the prevailing presumptions of tragedy. Transition, like testimony, is a nebulous concept of moving from one identity to another – from child to adult to older person, from non-disabled to disabled, from sighted ...
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