Why I Burned My Book
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Why I Burned My Book

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Why I Burned My Book

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This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic prejudice and probe into the institutionalized discrimination that affects the one in five Americans with disabilities.Whether writing about the social critic Randolph Bourne, contemporary political activists, or media representations of people with disabilities, Longmore demonstrates that the search for heroes is a key part of the continuing struggle of disabled people to gain a voice and to shape their destinies. His essays on bioethics and public policy examine the conflict of agendas between disability rights activists and non-disabled policy makers, healthcare professionals, euthanasia advocates, and corporate medical bureaucracies. The title essay, which concludes the book, demonstrates the necessity of activism for any disabled person who wants access to the American dream.

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riders, 
21–25, 
29, 
110, 
120, 
123,
125–30, 
133, 
138, 
140, 
143, 
144, 
145. 
See
also
Roosevelt, 
Franklin 
D.
Whose 
Life 
Is 
It, 
Anyway?
119–22, 
136–37,
141–42, 
158, 
163
Williams, 
Tennessee, 
61, 
92n. 
17
Willowbrook 
State 
Hospital, 
52n. 
7
Winter, 
Robert, 
232
women: 
assisted 
suicide/mercy 
killing 
and,
161, 
186–87; 
cultural 
representations 
of,
142, 
143; 
employment 
and, 
79–80,
98–99n. 
60, 
245; 
gender 
and, 
11; 
mar-
riage/family 
and, 
20, 
99n. 
60, 
245, 
246;
New 
Deal 
and, 
79–80, 
81–82; 
and 
paral-
lels 
to 
disability 
status, 
39, 
226, 
227,
228–29; 
political 
activism 
of, 
62–63, 
64,
65, 
66, 
68–69, 
69–70, 
71, 
72, 
79–80, 
85,
98–99n. 
60, 
101n. 
72, 
107, 
108, 
109–11.
See 
also
gender; 
men
Wood, 
Michael, 
132
workers’ 
compensation, 
80–81
Works 
Progress 
Administration 
(WPA),
50–51, 
54, 
63–64, 
66, 
70–73, 
74, 
76–80,
82, 
84, 
94n. 
31, 
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55, 
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56, 
58, 
60,
247. 
See 
also
League 
of 
the 
Physically
Handicapped; 
policy, 
public
Wright, 
Beatrice, 
209–10
“wrongful 
life,” 
122
278
Index

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword by Robert Dawidoff
  3. Introduction
  4. ONE Analyses and Reconstructions
  5. TWO Images and Reflections
  6. THREE Ethics and Advocacy
  7. FOUR Protests and Forecasts
  8. Index