The Disability Rights Movement
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The Disability Rights Movement

From Charity to Confrontation

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eBook - PDF

The Disability Rights Movement

From Charity to Confrontation

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Personal Notes
  3. Preface to the Updated Edition
  4. Preface to the First Edition
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chronology
  7. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  8. 1. “Wheelchair Bound” and “The Poster Child”
  9. 2. Seeing by Touch, Hearing by Sign
  10. 3. Deinstitutionalization and Independent Living
  11. 4. Groundbreaking Disability Rights Legislation: Section 504
  12. 5. The Struggle for Change: In the Streets and in the Courts
  13. 6. The Americans with Disabilities Act
  14. 7. Access to Jobs and Health Care
  15. 8. “Not Dead Yet” and Physician-Assisted Suicide
  16. 9. Disability and Technology
  17. 10. Disabled Veterans Claim Their Rights
  18. 11. Education: Integration in the Least Restrictive Environment
  19. 12. Identity and Culture
  20. 13. Disability Rights in the Twenty-First Century
  21. Notes
  22. Index