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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'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barnartt, Sharon N.
Otros Autores: Scotch, Richard K., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.