Social Science People With Disabilities
ReThinking DisAbility
New Structures, New Relationships
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1994
- Category
- People with Disabilities
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888642608
- Publish Date
- Jan 1994
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
This volume provides case studies of the contemporary independent living/disabled consumer movement from the perspective of New Social Movement theory. It describes the organizational strategies by which disabled people pursue the goal of integrated community living, and focuses on the work of several movement organizations.
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"With skill, Gadacz debunks stereotypes about disability and offers an analysis of disability as oppression, all the while attending to the ways in which this analysis is grounded in the experiences of people with disabilities." Sharon Dale Stone, Health and Canadian Society