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Disability Arts, Culture and Advocacy

Disability Arts, Culture and Advocacy.

Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking Glass (TLG) is a nationally recognized center that has pioneered research, training, and services for families in which a child, parent or grandparent has a disability or medical issue. TLG is a disability community based nonprofit organization, which emerged from the independent living movement, and was founded in 1982 in Berkeley, California. Our mission is "To create, demonstrate and encourage non-pathological and empowering resources and model early intervention services for families with disability issues in parent or child which integrate expertise derived from personal disability experience and disability culture."

Welcome To Outsiders | Outsiders

Welcome To Outsiders | Outsiders

Outsiders is a community of disabled people who:- * Work together to campaign for the acceptance of disabled people as sexual partners * Run a self-help club for people with physical and social disabilities to find love. If you feel isolated, dejected, rejected, or afraid to make that initial move, Outsiders can offer support and opportunities. Our members rarely look back! * Reach out to offer help and advice to the disabled community and health professionals * Work with other disability groups to increase understanding and work towards solving personal problems faced by people with disabilities

Wheelchairs and their active users: A CELEBRATION OF WHEELS

Wheelchairs and their active users: A CELEBRATION OF WHEELS

Saluting the modern wheelchair and its fascinating collection of users, liberated and enabled by their chairs to enjoy full and fulfilling lives.

Breath & Shadow - disability culture

Breath & Shadow Homepage.

Institute on Disability Culture NEXT RENAISSANCE Newsgroup Archive

Institute on Disability Culture NEXT RENAISSANCE Newsgroup Archive.

Welcome to the Institute on Disability Culture website. Our mission since 1994 has been to promote pride in the history, activities, and cultural identity of individuals with disabilities throughout the world. The purpose of this site is to provide information about disability culture and to share examples of our culture.

Albinism in Popular Culture

 

Albinism in Popular Culture

Amazon.com: Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body: Lennard Davis, Michael Berube: Books

Amazon.com: Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body: Lennard Davis, Michael Berube: Books

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body. Bending Over Backwards argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.

Amazon.com: Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality

Amazon.com: Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality: Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer: Books

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"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.

Amazon.com: Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality: Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer: Books

Amazon.com: Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (Cultural Front Series)

Amazon.com: Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity (Cultural Front Series): Simi Linton: Books

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"Long overdue, Claiming Disability both carves out a new field of study, and introduces and educates readers to disability studies as a vibrant space of intellectual work. Linton weaves in and out of disciplines—queer studies, traditional educational psychology, literary criticism, critical legal studies—without a blink. Both precise and expansive, she declares and defines disability studies in ways that are systematic, theoretically engaging, and policy-relevant."
—Michelle Fine, City University of New York

"Claiming Disability is the most comprehensive book in disability studies to come along yet. It wisely defines terms and concepts, linking them to and questioning the dominant issues in identity politics and multiculturalism, while mapping a direction for future study. A must read for anyone seriously thinking about the body and body politics in the postmodern era."
—Lennard Davis, author of Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body

"Provides a broadened and enriched definition of disability, and its author unfolds a compelling way to evaluate Special Education."
— Laurie R. Lehman, Educators for Urban Minorities

From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake.

Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those variations. With vivid imagery and numerous examples, Simi Linton explores the divisions society creates—the normal versus the pathological, the competent citizen versus the ward of the state.

Map and manifesto, Claiming Disability overturns medicalized versions of disability and establishes disabled people and their allies as the rightful claimants to this territory.