Advocate for disabled women's rights and health issues
By: Corbett O'Toole ; an interview conducted by Denise Sherer Jacobson in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Jacobson, Denise Sherer.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Center for Independent Living; Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund; Keys to Introducing Disabilities in Schools; Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews; People with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews; Women with disabilities -- Interviews; Lesbians -- Interviews; Children with disabilities; Special needs adoption; Single mothers -- Interviews; Women with disabilities -- Political activities; Lesbian mothers -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
Description: Contracting polio, 1952, family and childhood, Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, 1969-1973; Center for Independent Living, Berkeley, 1973-1976; organization of disabled women's groups; Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 sit-in; Keys to Introducing Disabilities in Schools Project (KIDS); advocacy for women, Disabled Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF); access to health care for disabled women; adoption of a child with cerebral palsy, reflections on parenting and education; disabled lesbian issues, contributions of lesbians to disability rights movement; United Nations Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995; international issues for women with disabilities.