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Altered Selves
Chevigny, Gale | March 30, 1998 issue

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This article presents information about the book "Staring Back: The Disability Experience From the Inside Out," edited by Kenny Fries. The disability rights movement may be advancing despite cutbacks, but consciousness of disability experience has barely gotten off the dime. As Fries notes in his introduction, Western culture has generated a succession of compelling types. The passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990 registered a shift in meaning, no longer figured as loss or deviation from the norm to be compensated for, disability is considered a physiological variation, to be accommodated by environmental adjustment. People with disabilities are repudiating the "medical model" of disability that pathologizes difference.

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STARING Back (Book); BOOKS; FRIES, Kenny; PEOPLE with disabilities; LEGISLATION; UNITED States
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