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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Contributors: Piazza, Roberta, editor.
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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"--
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Language:English
Published / Created: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: viii, 200 pages ; 23 cm

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ISBN:9781137332806 (hardback)
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15A 3385
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