Disability harassment / / Mark C. Weber
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| Autore: |
Weber Mark C. <1953->
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| Titolo: |
Disability harassment / / Mark C. Weber
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 342.7308/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Disability harassment |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-8468-2 |
| 0-8147-9507-2 | |
| 1-4294-9025-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808373403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Critical America Series