Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism,...
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SKU: 9780807036457
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Author: Ben Mattlin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Mattlin, Ben

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World

€42,78

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World

€42,78
Author: Ben Mattlin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He lifts the veil on a thriving disability culture--from social media to high fashion, Hollywood to Broadway--showing how the politics of beauty for those with marginalized body types and facial features is sparking widespread change.

He also explores the movement's shortcomings, particularly the erasure of nonwhite and LGBTQIA+ people that helped give rise to Disability Justice. He delves into systemic ableism in health care, the right-to-die movement, institutionalization, and the scourge of subminimum-wage labor that some call legalized slavery. And he finds glimmers of hope in how disabled people never give up their fight for parity and fair play.

Beautifully written, without anger or pity, Disability Pride is a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity, an inclusive reexamination of society's treatment of those it deems different.

Author: Ben Mattlin
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 11/29/2022
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.35w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780807036457


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/2022
Library Journal 10/01/2022 pg. 153
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2022
Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 3

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