Ramping up rights : an unfinished history of British disability activism
Charlton-Dailey, Rachel2025
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From the 'crippled suffragette', to '80s punks chaining themselves to buses, to campaigners taking a stand online, this book celebrates the amazing activists and protest actions behind the UK's long battle for disabled people's rights to live. Rachel Charlton-Dailey highlights a shockingly overlooked tradition of disabled struggle. She unpacks how British attitudes and policy went so wrong in the 21st century, and interviews campaigners and disabled people about how they have reclaimed power, from resisting government reforms to changing the media narrative. She explores live frontiers in the push for civil rights, from the scandalous inaccessibility of our education and transport systems, to the existential debates about genetic screening and 'the right to die'. Charlton-Dailey shows readers how hard, and how often, disabled people and their allies have fought, and won, and gives them the energy to keep fighting back.
Main title:
Ramping up rights : an unfinished history of British disability activism / Rachel Charlton-Dailey.
Author:
Charlton-Dailey, Rachel, author
Imprint:
London : Hurst & Company, 2025.
Collation:
xxi, 335 pages ; 19 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781911723950 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
362.404509362.40450941
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
8853242