Why I burned my book and other essays on disability / / Paul K. Longmore

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828438503321
• Autore: Longmore Paul K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 1-59213-775-X; 9786611093594; 1-281-09359-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Collana: American subjects
• Disciplina: 305.9/0816/0973; 305.90816; 305.908160973
• Soggetti: People with disabilities - United States - History; People with disabilities - Civil rights - United States - History; Sociology of disability - United States; People with disabilities in motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword by Robert Dawidoff; Introduction; ONE Analyses and Reconstructions; 1 Disability Watch; 2 The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People; 3 Uncovering the Hidden History of Disabled People; 4 The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History; 5 The Disability Rights Moment: Activism in the 1970's and Beyond; TWO Images and Reflections; 6 Film Reviews; 7 Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures; THREE Ethics and Advocacy; 8 Elizabeth Bouvia, Assisted Suicide, and Social Prejudice 9 The Resistance: The Disability Rights Movement and Assisted Suicide; 10 Medical Decision Making and People with Disabilities: A Clash of Cultures; FOUR Protests and Forecasts; 11 The Second Phase: From Disability Rights to Disability Culture; 12 Princeton and Peter Singer; 13 Why I Burned My Book; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most ; respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic prejudice and probe into the institutionalized discrimination that affects the one in five Americans with disabilities.Whether writing about the social critic Randolph Bourne, contemporary political ac