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On the margins of citizenship : intellectual disability and civil rights in twentieth-century America / Allison C. Carey.
Van Pelt Library HV3006.A4 C367 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Allison C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with mental disabilities--Civil rights--United States.
- People with mental disabilities.
- People with mental disabilities--Civil rights.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A theory of citizenship and disability
- Setting the stage : early tensions in citizenship
- The feebleminded versus the nation : 1900-1930s
- Professionals and the potentially productive citizen
- The rise of the parents' movement and the special child
- Creating the mentally retarded citizen
- The difficult road of the 1980s
- Reimagining retardation, transforming community
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592136971
- 1592136974
- OCLC:
- 301887953
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