Doing Disability Justice

Doing Disability Justice adds to a recent burst of scholarship on intellectual disability, including works such as The Faces of Intellectual Disability (Carlson, 2009), Acts of Conscience (Taylor, 2009), Theology and Down Syndrome (Yong, 2007), and On the Margins of Citizenship (Carey, 2009). Classic works in the field such as Trent's (1994) ,Inventing the Feeble Mind and Ferguson's (1994)  Abandoned to Their Fate provided broad historical analyses largely focusing on the history of institutionalization, and works since then have begun to fill in historical detail and add alternative perspectives, thereby adding further nuance to our understanding of intellectual disability. In Doing Disability Justice, Larry A. Jones contributes a critical piece of the historical puzzle by examining the parents' movement. There has been very little systematic study of this movement; indeed, it often gets overlooked in a typical historical schema that moves...