ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to place the substantive theory generated in this book, compensating for disability identity, into the discussion on disability identity in the present literature. First, four models of disability identity are presented, including the deficit model, the social model, the cultural minority model and the narrative model, with further elaboration on how disability is perceived in each model and how people deal with their disability identity. Second, voices of women with disabilities presented in the literature are investigated from the perspective of each model. Then it moves to discuss the differences between the present disability models and the substantive theory of ‘compensating for disability identity’, with the purpose of finding a place of this substantive theory in the current disability studies. This chapter ends with a dialogue among the functionalist perspective, symbolic interactionist perspective and substantive theory of compensating for disability identity generated in this book.
