ABSTRACT

Chapter 9 is a concluding chapter that reflects disability identity on the structural, cultural and personal dimensions. It begins with the situated interpretation of women’s disability identity, including the importance of fertility in patriarchal culture, the deficit model and internalized oppression and the gender disproportion and disabled matching. Then it moves to discuss a critical issue of disability identity, who is the ‘Other’, from the perspective of women with disabilities in rural China. Being like other non-disabled women and being not like other people with disabilities are two strategies informants in this study employed to detach themselves from the stigmatized identity arising from their disabilities. However, these two strategies, in turn, reinforce oppressions on women with disabilities. Social work practice from the micro level to the macro level is explored to provide effective professional service for these women and their families in rural China. Finally, recommendations for future study are also included in this chapter as well to invite researchers and practitioners to make more contribution in this area.