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| Title: | Beyond ramps : disability at the end of the social contract : a warning from an Uppity Crip / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marta Russell |
| ISBN: | 1567511074 (cloth); 9781567511079 (cloth); 1567511066 (paper); 9781567511062 (paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-244) and index. |
| Description: | 256 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I. The Nature of Our Oppression. 1. Why Be "Normal?": "Normalcy" as a Mechanism for Social Control. 2. Nazi and American Eugenics, Euthanasia and Economics. 3. Backhanded Social Darwinism: The "Right to Die" and Disability. 4. The Politics of Perfect Babies: With "Bad" Genes Everywhere, Who is "Safe"? -- Pt. II. The Mechanics of Poverty. 5. A Missing Link: Body Politics and the Sole Economic Order. 6. The Economic Straitjacket. 7. From Tiny Tim to Jerry Lewis: Charity and Economic Rights on a Collision Course. 8. The Final (Profitable) Solution: Modern Institutionalization and the Commodification of Disability. 9. The ADA in the New World Order: Free-Market Civil Rights in a Public Relations Era -- Pt. III. Ending the Social Contract. 10. Let Them Eat Unenforceable Civil Rights: Promoting the General Welfare in a Downsized Age. 11. Ending the Social Contract: Capitalism Begins to Eat Its Own. |
| Other Titles: | Disability at then end of the social contract |
| Responsibility: | Marta Russell. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Russell, Marta. Beyond ramps. Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, c1998 (OCoLC)676242617 |
| Year: | c1998. |
| Publisher: | Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 97016590 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1553; Dewey No.: 362.4/0973 |
| OCLC No.: | 36739674 |
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