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Family and disability activism : beyond allies and obstacles / edited by Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey, and Richard K. Scotch.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Family relationships.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Political activity.
- People with disabilities--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (188 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book collects accounts of people with disabilities and the relationship between their activism and their family. Insofar as the disability rights movement is at odds with allied parent activism, especially as regards the goal of independence, this dynamic changes across different disabilities and across families of different cultures"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction | Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey, and Richard K. Scotch
- 1. Familial Relationships in Asian American Disability Advocacy and Activism | Grace Tsao
- 2. Learnings from My Mother's Couch Corner: Becoming a Latina Disability Activist | Lisette E. Torres
- 3. Tàcharan: An "Autie"-Ethnographic Examination of the Biopolitics of Changelings and Cyborgs | Jaclyn Ellis
- 4. Empathy Deficits among Neurotypicals | Bridget Liang
- 5. Black Deaf Ordinary Who Deliberately Signs | Jenelle Rouse
- 6. Intersections of Deafness, Blindness, Deafblindness, and Gender: The Deaf Community, Blindness, and Deafblind Activism in Families | Cheryl Najarian Souza
- 7. Aging Out of Children's Hospitals: People with Complex Medical Conditions and Their Families in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries | Pamela Block
- 8. Survive and Thrive: How Little Lobbyists Empowers Families to Fight for Disability Justice | Jeneva Stone, Elena Hung, Laura LeBrun Hatcher, and Roger A. Stone
- 9. How to Do Limitless Lifelong Self-Determination | Erin Compton and Diane Compton
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4399-2390-6
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