AnyBook4Less.com
Find the Best Price on the Web
Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Developed by Fintix
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |  
 
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money

The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation

Please fill out form in order to compare prices
Title: The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation
by Doris Zames Fleischer, Frieda Zames
ISBN: 1-56639-812-6
Publisher: Temple Univ Press
Pub. Date: March, 2001
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $24.95
Your Country
Currency
Delivery
Include Used Books
Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble
Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5
Summary: Disability Rights Are Everyone's Rights
Comment: Unlike race or other minority groups, anyone can potentially become victims of this type of discrimination at some point in their lives, as I have learned. Anyone can understand the heroic action of someone like Rosa Parks who refused to be put in the back of a bus, but can you imagine not being allowed to ride a bus at all? These rights were not given. They were the result of individuals of equal heroism and the movement described in this book. It seems until you have experienced discrimination you can't understand it. The disabled live in a different world. Many care, many think they care and many don't understand at least until it happens to themselves or someone they love, so it is important for everyone in our soceity to make the effort to understand this reality so many quietly experience.

We have a mythology in this country. Most working people actually believe the government, their fellow citizens, will somehow protect and support them if they truly need it, although they also probably believe they are invulnerable to such a need. In my own experience, it took three years to earn the right to live in isolation and poverty, and endured homelessness while waiting for someone simply to listen, but was not allowed to keep my job or even try. I was told that I couldn't receive unemployment because I was disabled and by the same government and at the same time couldn't receive disability because I could work.

These basic human rights and freedoms are constantly under challenge. Our Supreme Court, who we expect to be the defenders of liberty, has undermined these vital efforts and the media seems to be a happy participant in spreading stories like the color-blind traffic light installer abusing the ADA, while simpler stories of individuals who want to work doesn't seem worthy of public discussion. Our nation is a diverse one. That should be our strength, yet in more homogeneous cultures such as in Europe, there seems to be less resistance to the basic hallmarks of humanity, the desire to not always be selfish and to know that there is a greater good that benefits all. This book is an important part of that desire.

Similar Books:

Title: The New Disability History: American Perspectives (History of Disability)
by Paul K. Longmore, Lauri Umansky
ISBN: 0814785646
Publisher: New York University Press
Pub. Date: March, 2001
List Price(USD): $24.00
Title: Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
by James I. Charlton
ISBN: 0520224817
Publisher: University of California Press
Pub. Date: August, 2000
List Price(USD): $17.95
Title: No Pity : People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
by Joseph P. Shapiro
ISBN: 0812924126
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date: 25 October, 1994
List Price(USD): $16.00
Title: Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability (American Subjects)
by Paul K. Longmore
ISBN: 1592130240
Publisher: Temple Univ Press
Pub. Date: April, 2003
List Price(USD): $22.95
Title: Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (Cultural Front Series)
by Simi Linton
ISBN: 0814751342
Publisher: New York University Press
Pub. Date: January, 1998
List Price(USD): $19.00

Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!

Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments

Powered by Apache