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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778131303321

Autore

Weber Mark C. <1953->

Titolo

Disability harassment [[electronic resource] /] / Mark C. Weber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-8468-2

0-8147-9507-2

1-4294-9025-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Critical America Series

Disciplina

342.7308/7

Soggetti

Discrimination against people with disabilities - Law and legislation - United States

Harassment - Law and legislation - United States

People with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Students with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Harassment narratives -- Harassment, exclusion, and equality -- Comparisons to race and sex harassment -- A new approach to legal claims for harassment in the workplace and other settings -- Liability for harassment in the public schools -- New approaches to liability for harassment in the public schools -- Common law remedies for disability harassment -- Constitutional objections to anti-harassment policies -- An agenda for legal and social change.

Sommario/riassunto

Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. The book considers courts' approaches to the problem of disability harassment, particularly the application of an analogy to race and sex harassment and the development of legal remedies and policy reforms under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). While litigation under the ADA ha