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The Disability Rights Movement
In this updated edition, Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of disability.
The authors provide a probing analysis of such topics as deinstitutionalization, housing, health care, assisted suicide, employment, education, new technologies, disabled veterans, and disability culture.
Based on interviews with over one hundred activists,The Disability Rights Movementtells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.
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Disease and Discrimination
Disease and discrimination are processes linked to class in the early American colonies. Many early colonists fell victim to mass sickness as Old and New World systems collided and new social, political, economic, and ecological dynamics allowed disease to spread.
Dale Hutchinson argues that most colonists, slaves, servants, and nearby Native Americans suffered significant health risks due to their lower economic and social status. With examples ranging from indentured servitude in the Chesapeake to the housing and sewage systems of New York to the effects of conflict between European powers, Hutchinson posits that poverty and living conditions, more so than microbes, were often at the root of epidemics.
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Ableist rhetoric : how we know, value, and see disability
\"Examines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Ugly Laws
The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing
disability In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth
centuries, municipal laws targeting \"unsightly beggars\" sprang up
in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and
thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these \"ugly
laws\" have become a sort of shorthand for oppression in disability
studies, law, and the arts. In this watershed study of the ugly
laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws,
situating the varied legislation in its historical context and
exploring in detail what the laws meant. Illustrating how the laws
join the history of the disabled and the poor, Schweik not only
gives the reader a deeper understanding of the ugly laws and the
cities where they were generated, she locates the laws at a crucial
intersection of evolving and unstable concepts of race, nation,
sex, class, and gender. Moreover, she explores the history of
resistance to the ordinances, using the often harrowing life
stories of those most affected by their passage. Moving to the
laws' more recent history, Schweik analyzes the shifting cultural
memory of the ugly laws, examining how they have been used-and
misused-by academics, activists, artists, lawyers, and
legislators.
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Ableism : the causes and consequence of disability prejudice
Ableism, prejudice against disabled people stereotyped as incompetent and dependent, can elicit a range of reactions that include fear, contempt, pity, and inspiration. Current literature--often narrowly focused on a specific aspect of the subject or limited in scope to psychoanalytic tradition--fails to examine the many origins and manifestations of ableism. Filling a significant gap in the field, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice is the first work to synthesize classic and contemporary studies on the evolutionary, ideological, and cognitive-emotional sources of ableism. This comprehensive volume examines new manifestations of ableism, summarizes the state of research on disability prejudice, and explores real-world personal accounts and interventions to illustrate the various forms and impacts of ableism. This important contribution to the field combines evidence from multiple theoretical perspectives, including published and unpublished work from both disabled and nondisabled constituents, on the causes, consequences, and elimination of disability prejudice. Each chapter places findings in the context of contemporary theories--identifying methodological limits and suggesting alternative interpretations. Topics include the evolutionary and existential origins of disability prejudice, cultural and impairment-specific stereotypes, interventions to reduce prejudice, and how to effect social change through collective action and advocacy. Adopting a holistic approach to the study of disability prejudice, this accessibly-written volume: provides an inclusive, up-to-date exploration of the origins and expressions of ableism, addresses how to resist ableist practices, prioritize accessible policies, and create more equitable social relations with pages earmarked for activists and allies, focuses on interpersonal and intergroup analysis from a social-psychological perspective, integrates research from multiple disciplines to illustrate critical cognitive, affective and behavioral mechanisms and manifestations of ableism, suggests future research directions based on topics covered in each chapter.
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Law and the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement
The passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 was hailed as revolutionary legislation, but in the ensuing years restrictive Supreme Court decisions have prompted accusations that the Court has betrayed the disability rights movement. The ADA can lay claim to notable successes, yet people with disabilities continue to be unemployed at extremely high rates. In this timely book, Samuel R. Bagenstos examines the history of the movement and discusses the various, often-conflicting projects of diverse participants. He argues that while the courts deserve some criticism, some may also be fairly aimed at the choices made by prominent disability rights activists as they crafted and argued for the ADA. The author concludes with an assessment of the limits of antidiscrimination law in integrating and empowering people with disabilities, and he suggests new policy directions to make these goals a reality.
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Disability discrimination
\"Disability discrimination occurs when people with physical or mental disabilities are given fewer opportunities or unfairly treated because of their disabilities. Examples can be found in schools that dont make accommodations for disabled students, buildings that are hard to maneuver in, and workplaces that keep people with disabilities from advancing. Disability Discrimination in Society examines what this discrimination entails, how it is manifested, how widespread it is, how it affects real people, and efforts to address this discrimination.\"--Publisher's description.
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This ability : an international legal analysis of disability discrimination
This Ability provides an analysis of the issues relating to inequality for those with disabilities at both the national and international level. The work examines the primary role of legislation and its effect on court process, looking at the impact of NAFTA and the EU in an historical and compelling analysis of discrimination.
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