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

"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)"-- "An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mattlin, Ben, 1962- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]
Subjects:
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
People with disabilities > Civil rights.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
United States.
Physical Description:xxii, 247 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Dispatches from a post-ADA world
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Too defiant?
  • 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 struggle for deinstitutionalization and Medicaid dollars
  • Sparks of activism everywhere
  • Epilogue: Trending or truly empowering.