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Disability Rights & Activism

Articles & Books

  • Charlton, J.I. (2000). Nothing about us without us: Disability oppression and empowerment. University of California Press.



  • Driedger, D. (1989) The last civil rights movement: Disabled people's international. C. Hurst & Co.


  • Fleischer, D.J., & Zames, F. (2011). The disability rights movement: From charity to confrontation. Temple University Press.


  • Kelly, C. (2013). Towards renewed descriptions of Canadian disability movements: Disability activism outside of the on-profit sector. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v2i1.68


  • Shanouda, F., Duncanson, M., Smyth, A., Jadgal, M., O’Neill, M., & Yoshida, K. K. (2020). Cultivating disability leadership: Implementing a methodology of access to transform community-based learning. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 380-413. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.702


  • Shapiro, J.P. (1994) No pity: People with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement. Crown.


  • Sherry, M. (2014). The promise of human rights for disabled people and the reality of neoliberalism. In M. Gill, & C. Schlund-Vials. Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism (pp. 15-26). Taylor & Francis Group.


  • Stienstra, D., Wight-Felske, A. (2003). Making equality: History of advocacy and persons with disabilities in Canada. Captus Press.

Websites



  • Citizens with Disabilities - Ontario (CWDO). (2022). Retrieved from http://cwdo.org/




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