Disability Identity

Meditation, disability, and identity.

Since we are all Crips in one way or another, it is well worth learning the truth of what must befall us some day, even if it hasn't already started (it has). After all, when all identities are finally included, there will be no identity. Lennard Davis, Bending Over Backwards [C]lassifications should be recognized as the significant site of political and ethical work that they are. They should ...

Disability Sport Socialization and Identity Construction

The subject of this paper is the sport socialization of athletes with disabilities; the object is to contribute to research and praxis through a review of the relevant sociological literature on the subject. The majority of the research, which uses structural-functionalism, is seen as a set of pioneering attempts to generate reliable information. However, the resulting information is too simpli...

Disability, identity and the "expressivist objection".

The practice of prenatal screening for disability is sometimes objected to because of the hurt and offence such practices may cause to people currently living with disabilities. This objection is commonly termed "the expressivist objection". In response to the objection it is standardly claimed that disabilities are analogous to illnesses. And just as it would be implausible to suppose reductio...

Deafness/Disability - problematising notions of identity, culture and structure

Beautiful to Me: Identity, Disability, and Gender in Virtual Environments

This paper examines the portrayal of disability, gender, and identity in virtual communities where representation is a matter of convenience, style, or whim. A survey was conducted of groups, identifying themselves as disabled, with a focus on gender, in the virtual space, Second Life. Four distinctive categories were analyzed in this study: groups associated with disabilities or being disabled...