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Advocate for disabled women's rights and health issues : oral history transcript / 2000.
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Advocate for disabled women's rights and health issues : oral history transcript / 2000Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
O'Toole, Corbett, 1951-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Jacobson, Denise Sherer, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
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.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPoliomyelitis -- 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
Disabled Children
Poliomyélite -- Patients -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
Femmes handicapées -- Entretiens
Lesbiennes -- Entretiens
Enfants handicapés
Adoption d'enfants à besoins particuliers
Mères de famille monoparentale -- Entretiens
Mères lesbiennes -- Entretiens
Women with disabilities
Special needs adoption
Single mothers
Poliomyelitis -- Patients
People with disabilities
Lesbians
Lesbian mothers
Children with disabilities
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Center for Independent Living.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
Keys to Introducing Disabilities in Schools.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.
Center for Independent Living.
Note:
Corbett O'Toole ; an interview conducted by Denise Sherer Jacobson in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3096 C:1-10.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xx, 184 pages) ; 29 cm
10 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.