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Author Mattlin, Ben, 1962- author.

Title Disability pride : dispatches from a post-ADA world / Ben Mattlin.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3202561~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction-NEW  323.370973 MAT    AVAILABLE
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Description xxii, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-236) and index.
Contents Creating rights -- Successes, disappointments, and shortcomings -- What is pride--and why does it matter? -- Disability studies and the afterlife of cultural icons -- Neurodiversity and autistic self-advocacy -- Disability justice -- Visibility, community, and context -- The politics of beauty -- Casting and miscasting -- What's so funny about disability? -- Health care disparities: Lessons of COVID-19 -- Not dead yet vs. the right to die -- "Easy to get in [but] impossible to get out" : The strugge for deinstitutionalization and medicaid dollars -- Sparks of activism everywhere -- Trending or truly empowering.
Summary "An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions.
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States.
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Law and legislation.
ISBN 9780807036457 (hardcover)
0807036455 (hardcover)
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