Disability Pride
Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
Published on 14. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-8070-1333-5 (ISBN)
Description
"An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston, MA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8070-1333-5 (9780807013335)
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E-Book
11/2022
Beacon Press
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Person
Ben Mattlin
Content
INTRODUCTION
Too Defiant?
PART I: THE ADA GENERATION GROWS UP
CHAPTER 1
Creating Rights
CHAPTER 2
Successes, Disappointments, and Shortcomings
CHAPTER 3
What Is Pride—And Why Does It Matter?
CHAPTER 4
Disability Studies and the Afterlife of Cultural Icons
PART II: PRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATION
CHAPTER 5
Neurodiversity and Autistic Self-Advocacy
CHAPTER 6
Disability Justice
CHAPTER 7
Visibility, Community, and Context
CHAPTER 8
The Politics of Beauty
CHAPTER 9
Casting and Miscasting
CHAPTER 10
What’s So Funny About Disability?
PART III: THE CONTINUING EVOLUTION OF DISABILITY ACTIVISM
CHAPTER 11
Health-Care Disparities: Lessons of COVID-19
CHAPTER 12
Not Dead Yet vs. the Right to Die
CHAPTER 13
“Easy to Get In [but] Impossible to Get Out”: The Struggle for Deinstitutionalization and Medicaid Dollars
CHAPTER 14
Sparks of Activism Everywhere
EPILOGUE
Trending or Truly Empowering?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Indes
Too Defiant?
PART I: THE ADA GENERATION GROWS UP
CHAPTER 1
Creating Rights
CHAPTER 2
Successes, Disappointments, and Shortcomings
CHAPTER 3
What Is Pride—And Why Does It Matter?
CHAPTER 4
Disability Studies and the Afterlife of Cultural Icons
PART II: PRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATION
CHAPTER 5
Neurodiversity and Autistic Self-Advocacy
CHAPTER 6
Disability Justice
CHAPTER 7
Visibility, Community, and Context
CHAPTER 8
The Politics of Beauty
CHAPTER 9
Casting and Miscasting
CHAPTER 10
What’s So Funny About Disability?
PART III: THE CONTINUING EVOLUTION OF DISABILITY ACTIVISM
CHAPTER 11
Health-Care Disparities: Lessons of COVID-19
CHAPTER 12
Not Dead Yet vs. the Right to Die
CHAPTER 13
“Easy to Get In [but] Impossible to Get Out”: The Struggle for Deinstitutionalization and Medicaid Dollars
CHAPTER 14
Sparks of Activism Everywhere
EPILOGUE
Trending or Truly Empowering?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Indes