Disability, divers-ability, and legal change /

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

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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.
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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.

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