The Process of Becoming an Activist: Identity Transformations in Autobiographical Narratives of Women with Disabilities in Poland
This article reconstructs identity transformations that manifest themselves in the biographies of female activists with disabilities. The empirical material was collected through autobiographical narrative interviews. The author identifies key stages and turning points for these identity transformat...
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University of Lodz
2023-08-01
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| description | This article reconstructs identity transformations that manifest themselves in the biographies of female activists with disabilities. The empirical material was collected through autobiographical narrative interviews. The author identifies key stages and turning points for these identity transformations. She also analyzes the role of significant others in the process of identity transformations and becoming an activist. The analysis of narratives of women with congenital disabilities demonstrates that the incorporation of disability as an element of individual self-definition is an important factor contributing to identity transformations. In the analyzed narratives, disability represents a biographical resource and, like identity, is processual in nature. Although it accompanies the individual from birth, it undergoes reinterpretations at different stages of life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-95e224ef42fa4a1a88f11e3fc1e1eeb02023-08-31T14:17:13ZengUniversity of LodzPrzeglad Socjologii Jakosciowej1733-80692023-08-0119315817710.18778/1733-8069.19.3.0918832The Process of Becoming an Activist: Identity Transformations in Autobiographical Narratives of Women with Disabilities in PolandKamila Albin0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2846-8751University of WarsawThis article reconstructs identity transformations that manifest themselves in the biographies of female activists with disabilities. The empirical material was collected through autobiographical narrative interviews. The author identifies key stages and turning points for these identity transformations. She also analyzes the role of significant others in the process of identity transformations and becoming an activist. The analysis of narratives of women with congenital disabilities demonstrates that the incorporation of disability as an element of individual self-definition is an important factor contributing to identity transformations. In the analyzed narratives, disability represents a biographical resource and, like identity, is processual in nature. Although it accompanies the individual from birth, it undergoes reinterpretations at different stages of life.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/socjak/article/view/18999activismwomen with disabilitiesturning pointsidentityautobiographical narrative interview |
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| title | The Process of Becoming an Activist: Identity Transformations in Autobiographical Narratives of Women with Disabilities in Poland |
| title_full | The Process of Becoming an Activist: Identity Transformations in Autobiographical Narratives of Women with Disabilities in Poland |
| title_fullStr | The Process of Becoming an Activist: Identity Transformations in Autobiographical Narratives of Women with Disabilities in Poland |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Process of Becoming an Activist: Identity Transformations in Autobiographical Narratives of Women with Disabilities in Poland |
| title_short | The Process of Becoming an Activist: Identity Transformations in Autobiographical Narratives of Women with Disabilities in Poland |
| title_sort | process of becoming an activist identity transformations in autobiographical narratives of women with disabilities in poland |
| topic | activism women with disabilities turning points identity autobiographical narrative interview |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/socjak/article/view/18999 |
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