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Women With Intellectual Disabilities

Women With Intellectual Disabilities

Finding a Place in the World

Edited by Rannveig Traustadottir and Kelley Johnson

Paperback: £22.99 / $45.00

2000, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 300pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-846-5, BIC 2: VFJD

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Finding a place... PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 and choices: Women with intellectual disabilities and sexuality. PART THREE: 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 FOUR: FINDING A PLACE IN COMMUNITIES 15.My life in L'Arche. 16.Intersecting cultures: Women of colour with intellectual disabilities. 17.Thirty nine months under the Disability discrimination act. 18.Motherhood, family and community life. ...in the World. References. Index.

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