The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation

by Doris Fleischer and Frieda Zames

Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopaedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism. The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of disability.The authors provide a probing analysis of such topics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439907439
• ISBN13: 9781439907436
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.4"