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The ragged edge : the disability experience from the pages of the first fifteen years of The disability rag / edited by Barrett Shaw.

Shaw, Barrett. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0962706450
Physical Description: xv, 238 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Louisville, Ky. : Advocado Press, [1994]
Copyright: ©1994

Content descriptions

General Note:

Articles and poems originally published in The disability rag, 1982-1994.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Preface. Why we do what we do / Cass Irvin -- Coming together. Aphasia / Edward L. Hooper -- Seeking the disabled community / Edward L. Hooper -- Like squabbling cubs / Mary Jane Owen -- Malcolm teaches us, too / Marta Russell -- Disability culture rap / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Image and images. Survivor / S.L. Rosen -- Thoughts on thinking differently / Tanis Doe -- Boutonnieres / John R. Woodward -- Toward a theory of radical disability photography / Anne Finger -- Giving it back / Cris Matthews -- Questioning continuum / Carol J. Gill --

This is oppression. The first taste / Cass Irvin -- The room of pain and loneliness / Edward L. Hooper -- Disconfirmation / Billy Golfus -- Cowboy justice in Tiburon / Arthur Jacobs -- Hate / Barbara Faye Waxman -- Private matters. Public stripping / Lisa Blumberg -- New insights / Edward L. Hooper -- It's time to politicize our sexual oppression / Barbara Faye Waxman -- It ain't exactly sexy / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Poems. Excavation / Kenny Fries -- Lunch break / Laura Hershey -- Reconciliation / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Reading braille / Mary McGinnis --

White caps / Margaret Robison -- Thanksgiving Day feast / Susan McBride -- Travelling / Katherine Simpson -- Like walking on the moon / Nancy Scott -- Now and then again / Susan Hansell -- Trajectories / Brian Hartshorn -- Becoming beautiful / Nancy Bigelow Clark -- The pity ploy. --and the greatest of these is charity / Anne Finger -- A test of wills: Jerry Lewis, Jerry's orphans and the Telethon / Mary Johnson -- Time to grow up / Julie Shaw Cole and Mary Johnson -- ADAPT ability and other actions. On the barricades with ADAPT / Mary Johnson --

Wade Blank's liberated community / Laura Hershey -- The power of one person / Mary Johnson -- Are we being served? The Do-gooder / Billy Golfus -- Why the nation doesn't have attendant services / Mary Johnson -- Auschwitz on Sesame Street / Lucy Gwin -- Life and death. Unanswered questions / Mary Johnson -- Suicide: political or personal / Julie Reiskin -- Silence on the psychiatric holocaust / Steve Mendelsohn -- Springtime for Hitler / Kathi Wolfe -- Eugenics and reproductive choice / Lisa Blumberg -- It can happen here / John R. Woodward -- Notes on contributors.