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Disabling barriers : social movements, disability history, and the law / edited by Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt.
Malhotra, Ravi (Professor), editor.; Isitt, Benjamin, 1978- editor.
2017
KDZ475.P46 D57 2017 (Map It)
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Title
Disabling barriers : social movements, disability history, and the law / edited by Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt.
Published
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
KDZ475.P46 D57 2017
ISBN
9780774835237 (hardcover)
0774835230 (hardcover)
9780774835244 (paperback)
0774835249 (paperback)
9780774835251 (PDF)
0774835257 (PDF)
9780774835268 (EPUB)
0774835265 (EPUB)
9780774835275 (MOBI)
0774835273 (MOBI)
Description
xii, 227 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)988154336
Summary
"Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement. Traditionally, disabled people were regarded as objects of pity and condescension. The rise of the social model of disablement--which identifies barriers, rather than physiological impairments, as the main problem facing people with disabilities--has resulted in a dramatic reconfiguration of how we regard political and legal structures affecting people with disabilities. Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this volume explores how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers' compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). This original contribution deepens our knowledge of the role of people with disabilities within social movements in disability history. The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to effect positive societal change."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Fomats Issued
Issued also in electronic format.
Series
Disability culture and politics.
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Malhotra, Ravi (Professor), editor.
Isitt, Benjamin, 1978- editor.
Bearing the marks of capital : solidarities and fractures in E.T. Kingsley's British Columbia / Mark Leier
Employers, disabled workers, and the war on attitudes in late twentieth century Canada / Dustin Galer
Gender and the value of work in Canadian disability history / Geoffrey Reaume
Dancing with a cane : the public perception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's disability / Anne Finger
Disability in motion : aesthetics, embodiment, sensation, and the emergence of modern vestibular science in the nineteen century / Mark Walters
"Of dark type and poor physique" : law, immigration restriction, and disability in Canada, 1900-30 / Jen Rinaldi and Jay Dolmage
Battling the warrior-litigator : an exploration of chronic illness and employment discrimination paradigms / Odelia R. Bay
Towards full inclusion : addressing the issue of income inequality for people with disabilities in Canada / Megan A. Rusciano
Compensating work-related disability : the theory, politics, and history of the commodification-decommodification dialectic / Eric Tucker.

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