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Author : Floyd W. Matson
Publisher : National Federation of Blind
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Walking Alone and Marching Together written by Floyd W. Matson and published by National Federation of Blind. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doris Fleischer
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439904213
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Disability Rights Movement written by Doris Fleischer and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle for disability rights in the U.S.
Author : Ed Vaughan
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607526743
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Education and Rehabilitation for Empowerment written by Ed Vaughan and published by IAP. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we are interested in patterns of education, rehabilitation service, socialization, and ideas about blindness that in large part produce the above-mentioned distinct patterns. We will examine the economic interests of professional groups and the patterns of domination and subordination, which are present in most rehabilitation relationships. Our central tenet is that the behavior of blind people is not a product of the physical condition of blindness or the amount of residual vision a blind person has. Rather, the behavior of blind people in our society is governed by socialization. Blindness is a social problem arising from erroneous, socially constructed negative beliefs about the capacities of blind people involuntarily assimilated from the broader society by the blind. People learn to live independently or they learn to be dependent. The reactions of parents, teachers, peers, the health professionals, rehabilitation counselors and the general public have defined the choices available to blind people. This is the case in every culture and society around the world. Differences result from different cultural values, levels of economic development, and historical traditions.
Author : James H. Omvig
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607524732
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Blindness Revolution written by James H. Omvig and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the dramatic story of the transformation of the Iowa Commission for the Blind from a verifiably ineffective service agency to perhaps the most outstanding and effective adult service program in the nation in the span of 10 short years. What happened in Iowa was revolutionary, and the character of work with the blind in America and around the world was altered forever—the alternative civil rights–based service model worked. Using Kenneth Jernigan's own writings of Board meeting minutes, reports, and letters, I present the details of the remarkable story from an activist's point of view. This book will certainly be of interest to those who work in the field of blindness, particularly those who work in agencies serving the blind, but this book is more than just a study in public administration. Omvig's research fills in significant gaps in the history of the blind movement and offers the reader a front-row seat to a pivotal moment in blind history. — Brian Miller, University of Iowa
Author : Paul K. Longmore
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592137756
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability written by Paul K. Longmore and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'
Author : Paul K. Longmore
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814785646
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The New Disability History written by Paul K. Longmore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse into the struggle of the disabled for identity and society's perception of the disabled traces the disabled's fight for rights from the antebellum era to present controversies over access.
Author : Gary L. Albrecht
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761928744
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Disability Studies written by Gary L. Albrecht and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking international handbook of disability studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. Five years in the making, this one volume summarizes the ongoing discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines. To provide insight and perspective, the volume is divided into three sections: The shaping of disability studies as a field; experiencing disability; and, disability in context. Each section, written by world class figures, consists of original chapters designed to map the field and explore the key conceptual, theoretical, methodological, practice and policy issues that constitute the field. Each chapter provides a critical review of an area, positions and literature and an agenda for future research and practice. The handbook answers the need expressed by the disability community for a thought provoking, interdisciplinary, international examination of the vibrant field of disability studies. The book will be of interest to disabled people, scholars, policy makers and activists alike. The book aims to define the existing field, stimulate future debate, encourage respectful discourse between different interest groups and move the field a step forward.
Author : Diana Papademas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0762300523
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Human Rights and Media written by Diana Papademas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VI on Human Rights and Media introduces and analyzes the significant relationship and discourse of human rights and media. As agenda setters, framers and integral actors in human rights movements, various forms of media are analyzed by the contributing authors.
Author : Gerard Goggin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742518445
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Digital Disability written by Gerard Goggin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications -- such as the Interact, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting -- have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.
Author : Michael Rembis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190234962
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Disability History written by Michael Rembis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability history exists outside of the institutions, healers, and treatments it often brings to mind. It is a history where disabled people live not just as patients or cure-seekers, but rather as people living differently in the world--and it is also a history that helps define the fundamental concepts of identity, community, citizenship, and normality. The Oxford Handbook of Disability History is the first volume of its kind to represent this history and its global scale, from ancient Greece to British West Africa. The twenty-seven articles, written by thirty experts from across the field, capture the diversity and liveliness of this emerging scholarship. Whether discussing disability in modern Chinese cinema or on the American antebellum stage, this collection provides new and valuable insights into the rich and varied lives of disabled people across time and place.
Author : David Horton Smith
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0803959931
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Grassroots Associations written by David Horton Smith and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the world of grassroots organizations and outlines their history while differentiating them from the more familiar paid-staff nonprofit organizations. David Horton Smith, a leading scholar on the nonprofit and voluntary sector, examines the available empirical research on the topic and analyzes the theoretical concepts that have come to define such associations. He affords the reader a complete, detailed description of the nature and characteristics of grassroots organizations, their formation, structure, leadership, life cycle, effectiveness, and their integral role in postmodern societies.
Author : Maria Cristina Galmarini
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150177378X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Ambassadors of Social Progress written by Maria Cristina Galmarini and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the international work of socialist blind activists was defined by the larger politics of the Cold War and, in many respects, represented a field of competition with the West in which the East could shine. Yet, her study also reveals that socialist blind politics went beyond propaganda. When socialist activists joined the international blind movement, they initiated an exchange of experiences that profoundly impacted everyone involved. Not only did the international blind movement turn global disability welfare from philanthropy to self-advocacy, but it also gave East European and Soviet activists a new set of ideas and technologies to improve their own national movements. By analyzing the intersection of disability and politics, Ambassadors of Social Progress enables a deeper, bottom-up understanding of cultural relations during the Cold War. Galmarini significantly contributes to the little-studied history of disability in socialist Europe, and ultimately shows that disability activism did not start as an import from the West in the post-1989 period, but rather had a long and meaningful tradition that was rooted in the socialist system of welfare and needed to be reinvented when this system fell apart.
Author : Gary L Albrecht
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761925651
Total Pages : 2937 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Disability written by Gary L Albrecht and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 2937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects over one thousand entries that provide insight into international views, experiences, and expertise on the topic of disability.
Author : Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 0878408983
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (784 download)
Download or read book Disabled Rights written by Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace, and social integration. Disabled Rights provides an interdisciplinary approach to the history and politics of the disability rights movement and assesses the creation and implementation, successes and failures of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by federal, state and local governments. Disabled Rights explains how people with disabilities have been treated from a social, legal, and political perspective in the United States. With an objective and straightforward approach, Switzer identifies the programs and laws that have been enacted in the past fifty years and how they have affected the lives of people with disabilities. She raises questions about Congressional intent in passing the ADA, the evolution and fragmentation of the disability rights movement, and the current status of disabled people in the U.S. Illustrating the shift of disability issues from a medical focus to civil rights, the author clearly defines the contemporary role of persons with disabilities in American culture, and comprehensively outlines the public and private programs designed to integrate disabled persons into society. She covers the law's provisions as they apply to private organizations and businesses and concludes with the most up-to-date coverage of recent Supreme Court decisions-especially since the 2000-2002 terms-that have profoundly influenced the implementation of the ADA and other disability policies. For activists as well as scholars, students, and practitioners in public policy and public administration, Switzer has written a compassionate, yet powerful book that demands attention from everyone interested in the battle for disability rights and equality in the United States.
Author : Fred Pelka
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 1558499199
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)
Download or read book What We Have Done written by Fred Pelka and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling first-person accounts of the struggle to secure equal rights for Americans with disabilities
Author : ElizabethF. Emens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351569376
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Disability and Equality Law written by ElizabethF. Emens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the theoretical, practical and legal dimensions of equality for persons with disabilities. The issues covered include the central problem of defining disability and impairment; the dilemma of same versus different treatment; the balance between autonomy and external influence and support; linkages to other anti-discrimination categories such as race and sex; the place of disability theory within identity politics; and issues of life, death, and our most intimate relationships. The articles reflect a wealth of international viewpoints and interdisciplinary areas which include philosophy, economics, memoirs, cultural studies, empirical studies and legal scholarship. The selection also includes classic texts which set out foundational ideas such as the social model of disability or the goal of integration, alongside essays that critique these conceptual mainstays. This volume brings into sharp focus a wide range of contentious and complex issues in the field of disability studies and is of interest to researchers and students from a wide range of fields.
Author : Renu Addlakha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000084418
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Disability Studies in India written by Renu Addlakha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, the international disability rights movement, the United Nations and national governments across the world have attempted to ameliorate the status of the disabled population through a range of legislative and policy measures primarily in the areas of health, education, employment, accessible environments and social security. While the discourse in the disability sector in India has shifted from charity and welfare to human rights and entitlements, disability studies — as an interdisciplinary academic terrain that focuses on the contributions, experiences, history and culture of persons with disabilities — has not yet taken root. This volume collates some of the most recent pioneering work on disability studies from across the country. The essays presented here engage with the concept of disability from a variety of disciplinary positions, sociocultural contexts and subjective experiences within the overarching framework of the Indian reality. The contributors — including some with disabilities themselves — provide a well-rounded perspective, in shifting focus from disability as a medical condition only needing clinical intervention to giving it due social and academic legitimacy. This book outlines key issues that would be germane to any disability studies endeavour in India and South Asia, and will appeal to academics, activists, institutions, laypersons and professionals involved in social welfare, sociology, disability studies, women’s studies, psychiatry, rehabilitation, and social and preventive medicine.
