![]() ![]() Breaking the silence: disability and sexuality in contemporary Bulgaria Disability and sexuality ‘I, my impairment and sex’ ‘We talk about sex’ Silencing and desexualisation The meaning of impairment Medicalisation Gender Concluding remarks Notes References 8. Living with a disability in Hungary: reconstructing the narratives of disabled students Historical background Research on disability in Hungary Research question and methodological considerations Living with a disability: individual cases Péter: ‘So what if I am not able to drive now? I am able to do everything else’ The residential institution Independence and initial successes Higher education – looking for new ways Mariann: ‘I longed for an ordinary life so much and in fact I do even now’ The years of vocational education before the car accident ‘The new life’ Éva: ‘Perhaps I can better understand the situation of a disabled person than a perfect, healthy person’ A new home and the audible world Later school years and the ‘caring’ vocation Different ways of processing disability-related stigmatization Biographical processing of disability: three ‘types’ Type A – ‘the aim-oriented lone warrior’ Type B – ‘functioning and adapting’ Type C – ‘the helper and activist’ Conclusions Notes References 7. Between disabling disorders and mundane nervousness: representations of psychiatric patients and their distress in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia Mental illnesses as socially constructed entities ‘Partially or completely incapable of work’: mental illness and disability in Soviet times Discovering patient rights: post-Soviet perspectives on psychiatric disability ‘Minor psychiatry’ comes to the aid: easing the neurologists’ workload ‘Sheer otherness’: representations of mental illness in Latvian society Stories about people with mental illness: changes in media representations Concluding discussion Notes Bibliography 6. Heroes and spongers: the iconography of disability in Soviet posters and film Icons and metaphors of disability Visual depictions in the 1920s: a reserve army of labour ‘With such people we will win any war!’: clichés of military heroism in the ‘Grand Style’ period Limited social change during the ‘Thaw’ period Moral variations in the visual aesthetics of disability during the stagnation period (1964–85) There are invalids in the USSR: the reconstruction of visual culture Conclusion: changes and challenges of (post) Soviet disability imagery Notes References 5. Prosthetic promise and Potemkin limbs in late-Stalinist Russia Revolutionary hands Prosthetic promises and ‘invalid-inventors’ The failings of Soviet technology Complaints, responses, and immunity Conclusion Notes 4. Soviet-style welfare: the disabled soldiers of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ Historical background No benefits for those who can work: the search for recognition by disabled veterans Not enough to live on: pensions for disabled soldiers The lower end of the hierarchy: the reintegration of disabled soldiers into working life Heroes without a voice: how the state hindered a collective identity among disabled veterans Conclusion Notes 3. ![]() ![]() Conceptualising disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Disability as a lens for understanding Eastern Europe Disability, modernity and postsocialism Locating Eastern Europe in disability studies The evolution of disability studies in Eastern Europe Multidisciplinary perspectives on disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union References 2. Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures and tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. ![]()
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