TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charlton,James I.
TI  - Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment 
SN  - 9780520925441
AV  - HV1568 .C37 1998eb
U1  - 323.3/087 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Discrimination against people with disabilities
KW  - Sociology of disability
KW  - Stigma (Social psychology)
KW  - Disabled Persons
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Power, Psychological
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Health Care Delivery
KW  - fast
KW  - Behinderung
KW  - gnd
KW  - B�urgerrechtsbewegung
KW  - Stigmatisierung
KW  - Gehandicapten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Discriminatie (sociologie)
KW  - Stigmatisering (sociale wetenschappen)
KW  - Politieke aspecten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index; COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; THE ARGUMENT; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PEOPLE INTERVIEWED; PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1. Nothing About Us Without Us; PART II. DISABILITY OPPRESSION AND EVERYDAY LIFE; 2. The Dimensions of Disability Oppression: An Overview; 3. Political Economy and the World System; 4. Culture(s) and Belief Systems; 5. Consciousness and Alienation; 6. Observations on Everyday Life; PART III. EMPOWERMENT AND ORGANIZATION; 7. Empowered Consciousness and the Philosophy of Empowerment; 8. The Organization of Empowerment; PART IV. CONCLUSION; 9. The Dialectics of Oppression and Empowerment
N2  - James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-y
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