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Easy targets: a disability rights perspective on the 'children as carers' debate
- Authors:
- MORRIS Jenny, KEITH Lois
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 44/45, Autumn 1995, pp.36-57.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Looks at how the children of disabled parents are being defined as 'young carers', arguing that the way in which this is happening undermines both the rights of children and the rights of disabled people. Analysis of the social construction of 'children as carers' illustrate that researchers and pressure groups are colluding with the government's insistence that 'care in the community' must mean 'care by the community'.
Independent lives?: community care and disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 199p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Draws on in-depth interviews with disabled people to explore the experience of receiving help with daily living activities. Covers: the development of community care policies and their application to disabled people; the ideas of the independent living movement; the debate on informal care; the experience of residential care, of being dependent on a partner or relatives for assistance and the experience of statutory services. Calls for policy-makers and professionals to recognise the civil and human rights of disabled people.
'Us' and 'them'? Feminist research, community care and disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 33, Winter 1991, pp.22-39.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Feminist research on community care is concerned with women's position in the family. Such research has failed to take on the reality and the interests of those groups of people who receive 'care'. This had led some feminists to conclude that non-sexist forms of community care are impossible and to advocate new forms of institutional care as an alternative. Disabled people experience such research as oppressive and alienating. Research which incorporated the subjective reality of disabled people would ask different questions but, although rejecting institutional care, would still support feminism's rejection of the way that 'community care' too often means 'family care'.
Care or empowerment? a disability rights perspective
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(1), March 1997, pp.54-60.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article challenges the notion of "care", arguing that people who need support in their daily lives have been constructed as "dependent people". Instead, the author argues, if we want to empower people we must learn from the Independent Living Movement, from the people who struggled against segregation and insisted that access to personal assistance over which they have control is a civil rights issues. Argues that the new direct payments legislation is an important stage in the achievements of a civil rights movement in any work which they develop on issues which are not of mere academic interest but which concern people's rights to choice and control in their lives.