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July 2001 - ANNOUNCEMENT:
Education for Disability and Gender Equity
THE EDGE (Education for Disability and Gender Equity) curriculum in now online. Please check it out and give us feedback.

EDGE is a research and development project to create a website, CD, and teacher's guides that will address the need for gender and disability sensitive high school educational materials.

NEW - December 2000
The League of the Physically Handicapped - Online
Paul K. Longmore and David Goldberger, "The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History," Journal of American History, 87(3) (December 2000), 888-322, is available online at http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.3/longmore.html
NEW - November 2000
The New Paradigm of Disability: BIBLIOGRAPHY
From Anthony Tusler's About Disability web site:
The list compiles print and electronic media recommendations from a diverse group of disability scholars and activists. Entries describe the disability experience, identity, pride, passion, intellect, and community to illustrate today's view, or new paradigm, of disability for an interested general audience.


Disabled Women on the Web!

More about artist, playwright, and poet Neil Marcus

Disability Militancy in the 1930s
and
From the Archives - U.S. Campaigns for the "Handicapped"

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Recent Additions:
The Right to Maternity by Rosangela Berman Bieler
Women's Resources - Changing Borders & Claiming Our Bodies Conferences
Little Known Tidbits of Disability History
Significant Dates in the History of Sonoma State Hospital
Media & Disability Bibliography

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Disability Social History Project
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Oakland, CA 94607
EMAIL:
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