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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807235803321

Titolo

Backlash against the ADA : reinterpreting disability rights / / edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2003

ISBN

1-282-59379-X

9786612593796

0-472-02549-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Corporealities

Altri autori (Persone)

KriegerLinda Hamilton <1954->

Disciplina

342.73/087

Soggetti

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

People with disabilities - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction / Linda Hamilton Krieger; Accommodations and the ADA: Unreasonable Bias or Biased Reasoning? / Harlan Hahn; Judicial Backlash, the ADA, and the Civil Rights Model of Disability / Matthew Diller; Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Narcissism, and the Law / Lennard J. Davis; Plain Meaning and Mitigating Measures: Judicial Construction of the Meaning of Disability / Wendy E. Parmet; The ADA and the Meaning of Disability / Kay Schriner and Richard K. Scotch

Psychiatric Disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the New Workplace Violence Account / Vicki A. Laden and Gregory SchwartzFrom Plessy (1896) and Goesart (1948) to Cleburne (1985) and Garrett (2001): A Chill Wind from the Past Blows Equal Protection Away / Anita Silvers and Michael Ashley Stein; Backlash, the Political Economy, and Structural Exclusion / Marta Russell; Administrative Remedies and Legal Disputes: Evidence on Key Controversies Underlying Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act / Stephen L. Percy; The Death of Section 504 / Ruth Colker

Sociolegal Backlash / Linda Hamilton KriegerContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Disability rights lawyers, activists, and scholars weigh in on the hot-potato issue of the last decade