Lives Worth Living: The Great Fight for Disability Rights

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Notes

¹ Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames, The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation, Updated Edition (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2011). The leading accounts of the two major pieces of disability rights legislation are Richard Scotch, From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001), on Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, and Joseph Shapiro, No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1993), focusing on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

² See especially Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky (eds), The New Disability History. (New York: New York University Press, 2001); Paul Longmore, Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2003). A recent popular history is Kim E. Nielsen, A Disability History of the United States (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012).

³  < http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm.html>; < http://americanhistory.si.edu/disabilityrights/welcome.html>

⁴ See for instance, Michael Oliver and Colin Barnes, The New Politics of Disablement (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); the website of the non-governmental Disabled Peoples' International, < http://www.dpi.org>; Michael Ashley Stein and Janet E. Lord, “Monitoring the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Innovations, Lost Opportunities, and Future Potential,” Human Rights Quarterly 32:3 (2010), pp. 689–728; and Maria Berghs and Myriam Dos Santos-Zingale, “A Comparative Analysis: Everyday Experiences of Disability in Sierra Leone,” Africa Today 58:2 (2011), pp. 18–40. Weird and Wonderful is a forthcoming documentary about disability rights movements in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, < http://weirdandwonderful.net/>.

⁵ Jeff Shannon, “The Promised Land Will Be Wheelchair-Accessible,” Chicago Sun Times, October 20, 2011, < http://blogs.suntimes.com/demand/2011/10/the_promised_land_will_be_wheelchair-accessible.html>.

⁶ William Peace, “Lives Worth Living,” Bad Cripple, November 21, 2011, < http://badcripple.blogspot.com/2011/11/lives-worth-living.html>. The dilemmas of reporting on successful rights struggles accompanied by continued problems are also apparent in Richard Bryant Treanor, We Overcame: The Story of Civil Rights for Disabled People (Falls Church, VA: Regal Direct Publishing, 1993) and are shared by other civil/human rights movements.

⁷ “Cutting edge” writings on intersectionality probe the intersection of race and gender, which also has implications for disability studies. See for instance essays in consecutive editions of Lennard Davis (ed.), The Disability Studies Reader, (New York: Routledge, 1997, 2006, 2010, and 2013); and monographs such as Harilyn Rousso, Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2013).