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         

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.

Reviews

"Focusing on the everday life of people with disabilities, [Charlton] argues that barriers to independent living are embedded in the larger social and economic environment. His discussion is buttressed . . . by interviews with disability rights activists from the Americas, Asia, South Africa, and Europe. It is their experiences that make Charlton's arguments and policy suggestions come to life."--"Choice