"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)"--
"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)"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ben Mattlin is a journalist, essayist, and author. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle weakness, he has been a lifelong wheelchair user. His books include Miracle Boy Grows Up and In Sickness and In Health. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Vox, and on NPR. He lives in Los Angeles, California. Follow him on Twitter (@benmattlin).
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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
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
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