No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

ISBN: 0812924126

Author: Shapiro, Joseph P.

Condition: New

A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.-The Washington PostThe primer for a revolution.-The Chicago TribuneNondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement-the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is societys myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.-from the Introduction