Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Temple University Press
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'

• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 1999

This is a paper edition reprint of study originally published in 1988 by the U. of California Press. The title refers to the historical process by which Washington was made into

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2007

Despite the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, many forms of discrimination against people with disabilities are still practiced, denying opportunity for employees, as well as the employers

• Publisher : Temple University Press
• File Size : 23,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2003

'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'

• Publisher : One World
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 26 October 2021

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies “Golem Girl is luminous; a

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 52,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

"Marshaling two decades' worth of painstaking research, Paul Longmore's book provides the first cultural history of the telethon, charting its rise and profiling the key figures--philanthropists, politicians, celebrities, corporate sponsors,

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 12 August 2016

“Baynton argues that screening out disability emerged as the primary objective of U.S. immigration policy during the late 19th and early 20th century.” —Journal of Social History Immigration history

• Publisher : UPNE
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

The remarkable autobiography of Mexican-Jewish disability rights activist and writer Gabriela Brimmer

• Publisher : Purdue University Press
• File Size : 49,9 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

Illness in the Academy investigates the deep-seated, widespread belief among academics and medical professionals that lived experiences outside the workplace should not be sacrificed to the ideal of objectivity those

• Publisher : NYU Press
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• Release Date : 01 September 2002

This text re-examines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. It argues that disability can become the new prism through