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Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment

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Title: Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
by James I. Charlton
ISBN: 0-520-22481-7
Publisher: University of California Press
Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $17.95
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book
Comment: I'd thoroughly recommend this book. It provides a global overview of the disability rights movement, and includes interviews with many activists from different countries. I found it easy to read, and thoroughly interesting.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book on Disability Issues
Comment: This is a well written, thoroughly researched work dealing with the treatment of disabled people in various cultures. The book explores the impact of religious institutions, charities, schools and various other institutions on how the disabled are treated. It also does a remarkable job of explaining how consciousness needs to change in order for progress to be made. It is an extremely thought provoking work which raises many issues. I recommend this book to anyone who may some day be disabled - which is any of us.

Rating: 5
Summary: A great book for anyone into disability empowerment
Comment: "The oppression of 500 million people with disabilities is rooted in the political-economic and cultural dime sions of everyday life", says James Charlton in Nothing About Us Without Us. Calling his book part descriptive, part conversational and wholly argumentative, the author observes how oppression and empowerment affect and change individuals and the community. Charlton's interviews with 45 international disability rights activists and his own observations as an activist recognize the essential theme of the disability rights movement: a demand for self control and conditions resulting from the lack of it. The author's threefold mission challenges existing epistomologies and ontologies of disability. With a close eye on Marxist theory, Charlton explains existing practices and suggests new foundations, structures and contexts in which to think about the relationships and conditions of oppression and resistance and to understand and support disability rights. Excellent

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