Nothing about us without us : disability oppression and empowerment /
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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תוכן הענינים:
- COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; THE ARGUMENT; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PEOPLE INTERVIEWED; PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1. Nothing About Us Without Us; PART II. DISABILITY OPPRESSION AND EVERYDAY LIFE; 2. The Dimensions of Disability Oppression: An Overview; 3. Political Economy and the World System; 4. Culture(s) and Belief Systems; 5. Consciousness and Alienation; 6. Observations on Everyday Life; PART III. EMPOWERMENT AND ORGANIZATION; 7. Empowered Consciousness and the Philosophy of Empowerment; 8. The Organization of Empowerment; PART IV. CONCLUSION; 9. The Dialectics of Oppression and Empowerment.