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Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality

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I am impressed with the comprehensive treatment of disability policy issues (connecting this into other social justice movements, and recognizing the position of people with multiple community loyalties) but Jaqueline Vaughn Switzer's book needs careful editing.

For all of her research, Switzer had selectively ignored the actual spelling of Elizabeth Zinser's name, instead using `Rinser' throughout both every mention of the late 1980's "Deaf President Now" movement (pp. 68-69) and the book index.


I don't have to like Zinser's role in this event (indeed my own empathies have always been with student protests against `medical' models of disability) to recognize the necessity of her name being spelled properly for advancing disability rights.

Building the case for the `liberation model' of disability which we are trying to achieve, careful book proof reading ultimately will provide remedy against the Elizabeth Zinsers of the world. We are then able to prove that we are capable of functioning in society, and attitudes were the biggest barriers.

The general thoroughness of this work is undercut when the person trying to comment on a situation does not appear to be aware of everybody who has participated in that nationally-publicized event.