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Physical and social barriers to social relationships: voices of rural disabled women in the USA
- Authors:
- TAUB Diane E., McLORG Penelope A., BARTNICK April K.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 24(2), March 2009, pp.201-215.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Through exploring the lived experiences of disabled women, this study investigates how physical and social barriers affect their social relationships. In-depth tape-recorded interviews investigating a variety of social and interpersonal issues were conducted with 24 women with physical or visual impairments who lived in a rural region of the midwestern USA. Using content analysis, the researchers examined interview data for common themes and patterns relating to social relationships. The findings indicate that physical barriers, related to the physical environment and personal physicality, along with social barriers, involving preconceptions of others about impairment and restrictions in personal networks, hamper the initiation and maintenance of social relationships. Further, the experiences of this group of disabled women corresponded most closely with the premises of a social relational understanding of disability.
Reflections on living with illness, impairment and death
- Author:
- MURRAY Pippa
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(4), June 2003, pp.532-536.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This short article calls for new understanding of the experiences of living with illness, impairment and death. It shows clearly, and often painfully, the tensions and contradictions between theory and experience, offering unique insights that hold great potential to help shift the landscape of familiar preoccupations with life, impairment and death.
My assistant and I: disabled children's and adolescents' roles and relationships to their assistants
- Authors:
- SKAR Lisa, TAMM Maare
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(7), December 2001, pp.917-931.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Presents a grounded theory study to describes how children and adolescents with restricted mobility perceive their assistant with a focus on their roles and relationships with one another. The group investigated consisted of 13 children and adolescents with restricted mobility from northern Sweden, aged from 8 to 19 years. The findings showed that relation towards/from the assistant were both mutual and non-mutual, and that there were relations that by the children/adolescents were perceived as ambivalent and unequal. The findings are discussed on the basis of the significance of these roles and relations in the children and adolescents' development.