Disability pride : dispatches from a post-ADA world

Mattlin, Ben, 1962- author.

Book 2022

"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). In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped...

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ISBN:

9780807036457

Description:

xxii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-236) and index
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Creating rights
Successes, disappointments, and shortcomings
What is pride
and why does it matter?
Disability studies and the afterlife of cultural icons
Neurodiversity and autistic self-advocacy
Disability justice
Visibility, community, and context
The politics of beauty
Casting and miscasting
What's so funny about disability?
Health care disparities: Lessons of COVID-19
Not dead yet vs. the right to die
"Easy to get in [but] impossible to get out" : The struggle for deinstitutionalization and Medicaid dollars
Sparks of activism everywhere
Trending or truly empowering

LCCN:

2022024698

Control Number:

3227331

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