Deinstitutionalising Women: An Ethnographic Study of Institutional Closure

By Kelley Johnson

Book Overview

This ethnographic study of deinstitutionalization explores the lives of women living in a locked ward within an institution for people with intellectual disabilities. Johnson describes in rich and carefully-observed detail the lives of the women in the institution largely through their own stories and experiences. The closure of this institution gave her a unique opportunity to closely examine the impact of deinstitutionalization on these women, and the book explores the paradoxical discourse of rights and management that is part of this process.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521623669
• ISBN13: 9780521623667
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"