Oliver, Michael J. 1999. "Capitalism, disability and ideology: A materialist critique of the Normalization principle."
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The oppression that disabled people face is rooted in the economic and social structures of capitalism. Materialist social theory offers disabled people the opportunity to transform their own lives and in so doing to transform the society in which they live into one in which all roles are valued. Oliver, Professor of Disability Studies, University of Greenwich, London, well-known disability rights advocate, sociologist and author. Dr. Oliver has a disability.
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