No pity : people with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement / Joseph P. Shapiro.
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TextPublication details: New York : Three Rivers, c1994.Description: xi, 382 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0812924126
- 323.3 SHA
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 323.3 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100342360 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights."- The Washington Post
"The primer for a revolution."- The Chicago Tribune
"Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement-the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society's myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult." -from the Introduction
Originally published by Times Books in 1993--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-368) and index.
Tiny Tims, supercrips, and the end of pity -- From charity to independent living -- The deaf celebration of separate culture -- A hidden army for civil rights -- Integration: out of shadowland -- People first -- The screaming neon wheelchair -- Up from the nursing home -- No less worthy a life -- Crossing the luck line.