What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement

by Fred Pelka

Book Overview

Nothing about us without us has been a core principle of American disability rights activists for more than half a century. It represents a response by people with disabilities to being treated with scorn and abuse or as objects of pity, and to having the most fundamental decisions relating to their lives--where they would live; if and how they would be educated; if they would be allowed to marry or have families; indeed, if they would be permitted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499199
• ISBN13: 9781558499195
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"