Marked identities :
narrating lives between social labels and individual biographies /
Edited by Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, UK ; Alessandra Fasulo, University of Portsmouth, UK.
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Summary: | "Western society has become increasingly diverse and inclusive, but stereotypes still pervade public discourse. How do people who for different reasons have a marked status in society manage their identity and respond to stereotypes? This edited volume explores this issue with people who either belong to a culturally salient group - Travellers, Jewish survivors, Canadian First Nation women, ex DDR citizens - or whose circumstances make them potential targets of discrimination - teenage mothers, homeless people, substance users and individuals with autism. The interviews in these chapters reveal how their life narratives resist, change or incorporate society's views about them"-- |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: viii, 200 pages ; 23 cm more |
ISBN: | 9781137332806 (hardback) |