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Disability, Gender, or Something Else? Identity-Based Interpretations of Inequalities Over the Life Course in France

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This chapter draws on biographical interviews to analyze identity-based interpretations of inequalities by disabled people in France, as these under- standings are formed and transformed over the course of their lives. We combined the material from two different studies to create a corpus of 65 life stories from working-age people with contrasting impairments in terms of type, degree, and onset, as well as various profiles in terms of gender, race, and class. When talking about the inequalities they face, respondents commonly made use of identity labels (gender, class, race, disability), among those available in their micro and macro environments. They usually presented these categories as separate and cumulative, and only a few upper-class disabled women developed reflections in line with an intersectional model. This frag- mentation of identity categories translated into the framing of each inequality encountered through a single lens. Respondents mentioned race, class, or gender mainly when evoking topics and contexts that the public debate high- lights as problematic, while their references to disability covered a variety of disadvantages. Although the interview situation might have fueled this framing, we also showed that certain earlier socialization processes led people to believe that their disability was the source of the inequalities they encountered. Lastly, we identified three turning points that encourage shifts in the interpretation of inequalities; these are the availability of a new label to qualify one’s experience, a competing identity-based interpretation for a mechanism, and access to a different, intersectional model of inequality

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Sociologie
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hal-04172405 , version 1 (18-08-2023)

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Célia Bouchet, Mathéa Boudinet. Disability, Gender, or Something Else? Identity-Based Interpretations of Inequalities Over the Life Course in France. Heather E. Dillaway; Carrie L. Shandra; Alexis A. Bender. Disabilities and the Life Course, 14, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.49-67, 2023, Research in Social Science and Disability, 9781804552025. ⟨10.1108/S1479-354720230000014004⟩. ⟨hal-04172405⟩
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