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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.