Family and disability activism beyond allies and obstacles / edited by Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey, and Richard K. Scotch.
| Other author | Block, Pamela. |
| Other author | Carey, Allison C. |
| Other author | Scotch, Richard K., 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey, and Richard K. Scotch -- Learnings from My Mother's Couch Corner: Becoming a Latina Disability Activist / Lisette E. Torres -- Tàcharan: An 'Autie'-Ethnographic Examination of the Biopolitics of Changelings and Cyborgs / Jaclyn Ellis -- Empathy Deficits Among Neurotypicals / Bridget Liang -- Black Deaf Ordinary Who Deliberately Signs / Jenelle Rouse -- Intersections of Deafness, Blindness, DeafBlindness, and Gender: The Deaf Community, Blindness, and DeafBlind Activism in Families / Cheryl Najarian Souza -- Aging Out of Children's Hospitals: People with Complex Medical Conditions and their Families in the 20th and 21st Centuries / Pamela Block -- Survive and Thrive: How Little Lobbyists Empowers Families to Fight for Disability Justice / Jeneva Stone, Elena Hung, Laura LeBrun Hatcher, Roger A. Stone -- How to Do Limitless Life-Long Self-Determination / Erin Compton and Diane Compton -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Abstract | "This book collects accounts of people with disabilities and the relationship between their activism and their family. Insofar as the disability rights movement is at odds with allied parent activism, especially as regards the goal of independence, this dynamic changes across different disabilities and across families of different cultures"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024053708 |
| ISBN | 9781439923887 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781439923894 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |