Marked Identities: Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies

by RobertaPiazza (Editor), Alessandra Fasulo (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $126.54

  Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes.