03571nam 2200661Ia 450 991096382920332120200520144314.097866110935949781592137756159213775X97812810935921281093599(CKB)1000000000552474(EBL)298904(OCoLC)476075180(MiAaPQ)EBC298904(Perlego)2034626(EXLCZ)99100000000055247420020918d2003 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhy I burned my book and other essays on disability /Paul K. Longmore1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20031 online resource (289 p.)American subjectsDescription based upon print version of record.9781592130238 1592130232 9781592130245 1592130240 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Advocacy8 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; IndexThis 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 acAmerican subjects.People with disabilitiesUnited StatesHistoryPeople with disabilitiesCivil rightsUnited StatesHistorySociology of disabilityUnited StatesPeople with disabilities in motion picturesPeople with disabilitiesHistory.People with disabilitiesCivil rightsHistory.Sociology of disabilityPeople with disabilities in motion pictures.305.9/0816/0973305.90816305.908160973Longmore Paul K1813971MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963829203321Why I burned my book and other essays on disability4367526UNINA