LEADER 03428nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910828438503321 005 20240410143054.0 010 $a1-59213-775-X 010 $a9786611093594 010 $a1-281-09359-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000552474 035 $a(EBL)298904 035 $a(OCoLC)476075180 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC298904 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000552474 100 $a20020918d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhy I burned my book and other essays on disability /$fPaul K. Longmore 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican subjects 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59213-023-2 311 $a1-59213-024-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a8 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 330 $aThis wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic prejudice and probe into the institutionalized discrimination that affects the one in five Americans with disabilities.Whether writing about the social critic Randolph Bourne, contemporary political ac 410 0$aAmerican subjects. 606 $aPeople with disabilities$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPeople with disabilities$xCivil rights$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSociology of disability$zUnited States 606 $aPeople with disabilities in motion pictures 615 0$aPeople with disabilities$xHistory. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities$xCivil rights$xHistory. 615 0$aSociology of disability 615 0$aPeople with disabilities in motion pictures. 676 $a305.9/0816/0973 676 $a305.90816 676 $a305.908160973 700 $aLongmore$b Paul K$01719696 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828438503321 996 $aWhy I burned my book and other essays on disability$94117736 997 $aUNINA