No Pity
by Shapiro, Joseph P.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-04-01
Publisher(s): Times Books
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Summary
Now available in paperback and the winner of numerous awards, this is the first popular history of the disability rights movement. Includes conversations with couragous people who fight for freedom of movement, meaningful employment, and a life of dignity and promise.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: You Just Don't Understand | p. 3 |
| Tiny Tims, Superscripts, and the End of Pity | p. 12 |
| From Charity to Independent Living | p. 41 |
| The Deaf Celebration of Separate Culture | p. 74 |
| A Hidden Army for Civil Rights | p. 105 |
| Integration: Out of Shadowland | p. 142 |
| People First | p. 184 |
| The Screaming Neon Wheelchair | p. 211 |
| Up from the Nursing Home | p. 237 |
| No Less Worthy a Life | p. 258 |
| Crossing the Luck Line | p. 289 |
| Epilogue: How the Disability Rights Movement Is Changing America | p. 322 |
| Postscript: A Single Garment of Destiny | p. 333 |
| Notes | p. 341 |
| Bibliography | p. 363 |
| Index | p. 369 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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