Nothing about us without us : disability oppression and empowerment / / James I. Charlton
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| Autore: |
Charlton James I.
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| Titolo: |
Nothing about us without us : disability oppression and empowerment / / James I. Charlton
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1998] |
| ©1998 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | People with disabilities - Civil rights |
| People with disabilities - Social conditions | |
| Discrimination against people with disabilities | |
| Sociology of disability | |
| Stigma (Social psychology) | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | academic |
| cognitive disability | |
| colonialism | |
| degradation | |
| dependency | |
| developmental disabilities | |
| disability oppression | |
| disability rights | |
| disability studies | |
| disability | |
| equality | |
| european history | |
| impairment | |
| inequality | |
| interviews | |
| literary criticism | |
| oppression | |
| physical disability | |
| power | |
| racism | |
| scholarly | |
| self determination | |
| self reliance | |
| sensory disability | |
| sexism | |
| social justice | |
| theoretical | |
| third world | |
| true story | |
| western world | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-194) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- The Argument -- Acknowledgments -- People Interviewed -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Disability Oppression and Everyday Life -- Part III. Empowerment and Organization -- Part IV. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Charlton finds an antidote for dependency and powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide. His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists. As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements, the disability rights movement will gain visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history and its political philosophy of self-determination, which is captured in the title of his book. Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them. Charlton's combination of personal involvement and theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nothing about us without us |
| ISBN: | 1-280-09047-2 |
| 9786613520357 | |
| 0-520-92544-0 | |
| 0-585-04779-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828722203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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