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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
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"A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights."--The Washington Post
"The primer for a revolution."--The Chicago Tribune
"Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement--the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society's myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult."--from the Introduction
Author: Joseph P. Shapiro
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 10/25/1994
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780812924121
"The primer for a revolution."--The Chicago Tribune
"Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement--the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society's myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult."--from the Introduction
Author: Joseph P. Shapiro
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 10/25/1994
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780812924121
