Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment / Edition 1

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment / Edition 1

by James I. Charlton
ISBN-10:
0520224817
ISBN-13:
9780520224810
Pub. Date:
08/30/2000
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520224817
ISBN-13:
9780520224810
Pub. Date:
08/30/2000
Publisher:
University of California Press
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment / Edition 1

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment / Edition 1

by James I. Charlton
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Overview

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-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World, Europe, and the United States.

Charlton finds an antidote for dependency and powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide. His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists. As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements, the disability rights movement will gain visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history and its political philosophy of self-determination, which is captured in the title of his book.

Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them. Charlton's combination of personal involvement and theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520224810
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 08/30/2000
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 213
Sales rank: 845,794
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

James I. Charlton, Executive Vice President of Access Living in Chicago, is a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad on many aspects of disability and the disability rights movement.

Table of 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 
            
            NOTES                                     
            BIBLIOGRAPHY                              
            INDEX         
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