Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, Richard Scotch

Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book explores the tensions between the disability rights groups advocating on behalf of people with intellectual, cognitive, and psychiatric disorders including autism and allied advocacy groups representing parents with children in those communities. These groups diverge over issues like independence and recovery, and in their cultural and political capital"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781439916322
• ISBN-10: 1439916322
• Artikelnr.: 58293101

Autorenporträt

Allison C. Carey is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg University. She is the author of On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America (Temple) and co-editor of Disability Incarcerated: Disability and Imprisonment in the United States and Canada and of Disability and Community. Pamela Block is a Professor of Anthropology at Western University. She is co-editor of Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. Richard K. Scotch is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Texas, Dallas. He is the author of From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy (Temple), co-author of Disability Protests: Contentious Politics, 1970–1999, and co-editor of Disability and Community.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 1
Chapter 1 Introduction 4
Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42
Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43
Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism          
                                                                         
82
Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114
Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147
Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179
Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led
Organizations 180
Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism  203
Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248
Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270
Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions        
                                                                           
316
Chapter 11 Conclusion 340
Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358
Endnotes 360
Bibliography 386