INTRODUCTION
Too Defiant?

PART I: THE ADA GENERATION GROWS UP

CHAPTER 1
Creating Rights

CHAPTER 2
Successes, Disappointments, and Shortcomings

CHAPTER 3
What Is Pride—And Why Does It Matter?

CHAPTER 4
Disability Studies and the Afterlife of Cultural Icons

PART II: PRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATION

CHAPTER 5
Neurodiversity and Autistic Self-Advocacy

CHAPTER 6
Disability Justice

CHAPTER 7
Visibility, Community, and Context

CHAPTER 8
The Politics of Beauty

CHAPTER 9
Casting and Miscasting

CHAPTER 10
What’s So Funny About Disability?

PART III: THE CONTINUING EVOLUTION OF DISABILITY ACTIVISM

CHAPTER 11
Health-Care Disparities: Lessons of COVID-19

CHAPTER 12
Not Dead Yet vs. the Right to Die

CHAPTER 13
“Easy to Get In [but] Impossible to Get Out”: The Struggle for Deinstitutionalization and Medicaid Dollars

CHAPTER 14
Sparks of Activism Everywhere

EPILOGUE
Trending or Truly Empowering?

Acknowledgments
Notes
Indes

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Too Defiant?

PART I: THE ADA GENERATION GROWS UP

CHAPTER 1
Creating Rights

CHAPTER 2
Successes, Disappointments, and Shortcomings

CHAPTER 3
What Is Pride—And Why Does It Matter?

CHAPTER 4
Disability Studies and the Afterlife of Cultural Icons

PART II: PRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATION

CHAPTER 5
Neurodiversity and Autistic Self-Advocacy

CHAPTER 6
Disability Justice

CHAPTER 7
Visibility, Community, and Context

CHAPTER 8
The Politics of Beauty

CHAPTER 9
Casting and Miscasting

CHAPTER 10
What’s So Funny About Disability?

PART III: THE CONTINUING EVOLUTION OF DISABILITY ACTIVISM

CHAPTER 11
Health-Care Disparities: Lessons of COVID-19

CHAPTER 12
Not Dead Yet vs. the Right to Die

CHAPTER 13
“Easy to Get In [but] Impossible to Get Out”: The Struggle for Deinstitutionalization and Medicaid Dollars

CHAPTER 14
Sparks of Activism Everywhere

EPILOGUE
Trending or Truly Empowering?

Acknowledgments
Notes
Indes

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