Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self-identity
The issue of (re)constructing one's self-identity is an important, sociologically relevant issue of today. Qualitative interviews with women with learning difficulties have been done in order to further the understanding of the meaning of gender and disability, and what this means with regard t...
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Stockholm University Press
2009-07-01
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| Series: | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research |
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| description | The issue of (re)constructing one's self-identity is an important, sociologically relevant issue of today. Qualitative interviews with women with learning difficulties have been done in order to further the understanding of the meaning of gender and disability, and what this means with regard to one's sense of self. Based on the lives realities of the participants, the analysis concludes that the social background and present situation of the elderly women make it difficult for these to have some control in their everyday lives. Among the participants, there are those who have an ambivalent approach to, and indeed oppose, the ascribed identity as learning disabled. This way of striving to reconstruct one's identity can be understood as a means of rejecting the oppressive situation of being rendered invisible and at the same time marked out as different, i.e. as a means of empowerment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cda24ae8ff6d49c6bb84546686536a802023-09-02T08:06:00ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Disability Research1501-74191745-30112009-07-0141587910.1080/15017410209510783118Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self-identityKarin Barron0Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, SwedenThe issue of (re)constructing one's self-identity is an important, sociologically relevant issue of today. Qualitative interviews with women with learning difficulties have been done in order to further the understanding of the meaning of gender and disability, and what this means with regard to one's sense of self. Based on the lives realities of the participants, the analysis concludes that the social background and present situation of the elderly women make it difficult for these to have some control in their everyday lives. Among the participants, there are those who have an ambivalent approach to, and indeed oppose, the ascribed identity as learning disabled. This way of striving to reconstruct one's identity can be understood as a means of rejecting the oppressive situation of being rendered invisible and at the same time marked out as different, i.e. as a means of empowerment.https://www.sjdr.se/articles/187 |
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| title | Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self-identity |
| title_full | Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self-identity |
| title_fullStr | Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self-identity |
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| title_short | Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self-identity |
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