What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement
By Fred Pelka.
Description
"Nothing about us without us" has been a core principle of American disability rights activists for more than half a century. It represents a response by people with disabilities to being treated with scorn and abuse or as objects of pity, and to having the most fundamental decisions relating to their lives―where they would live; if and how they would be educated; if they would be allowed to marry or have families; indeed, if they would be permitted to live at all―made by those who were, in the parlance of the movement, "temporarily able-bodied."In What We Have Done: An ...
ISBN(s)
1558499199, 9781558499195
