1998 年 3 巻 p. 3-18
This study analyzed autobiographies of three handicapped women. The following points will be discussed: (1) Universal problems in Life Histories of the handicapped. (2) Subjective construction of social reality by the handicapped. (3) Significance and possibility of Culture of the handicapped. The finding includes that there were characteristic common to turnning points-medical treatment, rihabilitation, education, independence living and so forth-in their life, and I find that they constructed subjective social reality in turnning points of their life histories and reformed self definition.