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Heather Ridolfo and Brian Ward explore the experiences of people with impaired mobility, enhancing our understanding of why some embrace a disabled identity, why others reject it, and the personal and societal implications of both choices. Drawing on a combination of intimate interviews and statistical data, the authors unpack the ways that physical and social barriers shape personal ideas of disability. They also highlight the impact of interlocking factors such as age, race, gender, and economic class. Their work provides important new insights, relevant to theory as well as policy and practice.

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The authors create a nuanced vision of the experiences faced by impaired individuals-offering a better understanding of the disabled identity, who chooses to identify with it, and why. Provides new insights on disability and the construction of identity.... It is a must-have book for academics conducting further research in this field. Excellent.... Sheds light for experts in the field, as well as those unfamiliar with the reasoning surrounding disability and identities.

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Heather Ridolfo is a survey statistician with the National Agricultural Statistics Service in the US Department of Agriculture. Brian W. Ward is a research affiliate of the Center for Social Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.

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