On the margins of citizenship : intellectual disability and civil rights in twentieth-century America / Allison C. Carey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, Allison C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with mental disabilities--Civil rights--United States.

People with mental disabilities.

Mentally ill--United States.

Mentally ill.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On the Margins of Citizenship provides a comprehensive, sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey, who has been active in disability advocacy and politics her entire life, draws upon a broad range of historical and legal documents as well as the literature of citizenship studies to develop a "relational practice" approach to the issues of intellectual disability and civil rights. She examines how and why parents, self-advocates, and professionals have fought for different visions of rights for this population throughout the...

Contents:

Introduction

A theory of citizenship and disability

Setting the stage : early tensions in citizenship

The feebleminded versus the nation : 1900-1930's

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 1980's

Reimagining retardation, transforming community

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612272219

9781282272217

1282272217

9781592136995

1592136990

OCLC:

437411339

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34614 hdl