Disability protests : contentious politics 1970-1999 /
Part and parcel to the civil rights movements of the past thirty years has been a sustained, coordinated effort among disabled Americans to secure equal rights and equal access to that of non-disabled people. Beyond merely providing a history of this movement, Sharon Barnartt and Richard Scotch'...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Gallaudet University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- One History of Disability in America: How Collective Action Became Possible
- Collective Consciousness and a Profile of Issues
- The Social Basis for Movement Formation and Mobilization
- A Profile of Contentious Actions: How Success Became Possible
- Cross-Disability and Impairment-Specific Protests: Social Movement Unity and Disunity
- Changes in Protests over Time: Increased Heterogeneity, Decreased Societal Attention
- The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act: The Effects of Cross-Disability Successes
- The Deaf President Now Protest: The Effect of an Impairment-Specific Success
- Looking to the New Millennium
- Conclusion: Against All Odds and Contrary to the Conventional Wisdom.