Disability, divers-ability, and legal change / / edited by Melinda Jones and Lee Ann Basser Marks.

• Superior document: International Studies in Human Rights ; 56
• TeilnehmendeR: Jones, Melinda,; Basser Marks, Lee Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: The Hague, The Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Human Rights ; 56.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- PART 1 LIFE: The Social Recognition &amp -- Definition of Disability -- 1. Law and the Social Construction of Disability -- 2. What is a Disabled Person? -- 3. The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the USA [United States of Ability] -- 4. Reflections on a Journey: Geographical Perspectives on Disability -- 5. Riding with the Man on the Escalator: Citizenship and Disability -- 6. Double Consciousness, Triple Difference: Disability, Race, Gender and the Politics of Recognition -- 7. Minority Rights or Universal Participation: the Politics of Disablement -- PART 2 LAW: Legal Responses -- Legislation -- Constitutional Issues -- 8. The Standard Rules: a Weak Instrument and a Strong Commitment -- 9. The Office of the Disability Ombudsman in Sweden -- 10. The European Community's Response to Disability -- 11. From Social (In)Security to Equal Employment Opportunities - a Report from the Netherlands -- 12. The Canadian Framework for Disability Equality Rights -- 13. Disability, Rights and Law in Australia -- 14. From Welfare to Rights? Disability and Legal Change in the United Kingdom in the Late 1990s -- 15. Toward Equality: The ADA's Accommodation of Differences -- PART 3 LIFE IN LAW: Specific Application of Law and Disability -- 16. From Healthism to Social Well-being: Health-related Human Rights of People with Disabilities -- 17. Bioethics, Disability and Death: Uncovering Cultural Bias in the Euthanasia Debate -- 18. Peeking through the Eyes of the Body: Regulating the Bodies of Women with Disabilities -- 19. Sexual Abuse of People with Disabilities: Denied Sexuality and Abuses of Power -- 20. People with an Intellectual Disability in the Criminal Justice Systems.

21. Struggling with the Fabric of Disablement: Picking Up the Threads of the Law and Education -- 22. More than Law: Advocacy for Disability Rights -- References -- Index -- International Studies in Human Rights.