Merry Cross
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merry Cross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merry |
| FAMILY NAME | Cross |
| SIGNATURE | CROSS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | England, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
If Only
Child abuse survivor and disability activist I was born with an extremely rare condition and was therefore in hospital as an infant.There I was sexually abused by a night nurse.Luckily I was then raised by a loving family, but have lived with anxiety and depression and, especially as my impairment is very visible, with disability oppression all my life.I was suicidal in my 20 s but was introduced to peer counselling which has kept me going all th…
Worth saving
It has to be exciting for us disabled people to encounter any social history regarding ourselves, because there is so little of it. Despite its title, Worth Saving sets the wartime experiences with
Demonised, impoverished and now forced into isolation
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was introduced in the United Kingdom explicitly to help offset the extra costs of disability. The scrapping of DLA and its replacement with the so-called Personal Independence Payment is causing massive concern across the United Kingdom, not least because it comes in the wake of a large number of other cuts, all of which impact disproportionately on disabled people. These changes reflect the retraction of ‘welfar…
The myth of autism
by Sami Timimi, Neil Gardiner and Brian McCabe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-23-054526-7 You know when the truth shines so brightly that you feel the urge t
With Wings
Demonised, impoverished and now forced into isolation
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was introduced in the United Kingdom explicitly to help offset the extra costs of disability. The scrapping of DLA and its replacement with the so-called Personal Independence Payment is causing massive concern across the United Kingdom, not least because it comes in the wake of a large number of other cuts, all of which impact disproportionately on disabled people. These changes reflect the retraction of ‘welfar…
With Wings
The myth of autism
by Sami Timimi, Neil Gardiner and Brian McCabe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-23-054526-7 You know when the truth shines so brightly that you feel the urge t
Demonised, impoverished and now forced into isolation
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) was introduced in the United Kingdom explicitly to help offset the extra costs of disability. The scrapping of DLA and its replacement with the so-called Personal Independence Payment is causing massive concern across the United Kingdom, not least because it comes in the wake of a large number of other cuts, all of which impact disproportionately on disabled people. These changes reflect the retraction of ‘welfar…
Worth saving
It has to be exciting for us disabled people to encounter any social history regarding ourselves, because there is so little of it. Despite its title, Worth Saving sets the wartime experiences with
If Only
Child abuse survivor and disability activist I was born with an extremely rare condition and was therefore in hospital as an infant.There I was sexually abused by a night nurse.Luckily I was then raised by a loving family, but have lived with anxiety and depression and, especially as my impairment is very visible, with disability oppression all my life.I was suicidal in my 20 s but was introduced to peer counselling which has kept me going all th…
Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (2 works) · Disabled people (2 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Allowance (engineering (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)