The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation

The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation
ISBN-10
1439907447
ISBN-13
9781439907443
Series
The Disability Rights Movement
Category
Political Science
Pages
361
Language
English
Published
2011-06-03
Publisher
Temple University Press
Authors
Doris Fleischer, Frieda Zames

Description

In this updated edition, Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of disability. The authors provide a probing analysis of such topics as deinstitutionalization, housing, health care, assisted suicide, employment, education, new technologies, disabled veterans, and disability culture. Based on interviews with over one hundred activists, The Disability Rights Movement tells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.

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