Civil Disabilities

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Beth Linker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780812246674

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Civil Disabilities by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Beth Linker Pdf

An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability; this number grows exponentially when family members, friends, and care providers are included. Various countries and international organizations have attempted to guard against discrimination and secure basic human rights for those whose lives are affected by disability. Yet despite such attempts many disabled persons in the United States and throughout the world still face exclusion from full citizenship and membership in their respective societies. They are regularly denied employment, housing, health care, access to buildings, and the right to move freely in public spaces. At base, such discrimination reflects a tacit yet pervasive assumption that disabled persons do not belong in society. Civil Disabilities challenges such norms and practices, urging a reconceptualization of disability and citizenship to secure a rightful place for disabled persons in society. Essays from leading scholars in a diversity of fields offer critical perspectives on current citizenship studies, which still largely assume an ableist world. Placing historians in conversation with anthropologists, sociologists with literary critics, and musicologists with political scientists, this interdisciplinary volume presents a compelling case for reimagining citizenship that is more consistent, inclusive, and just, in both theory and practice. By placing disability front and center in academic and civic discourse, Civil Disabilities tests the very notion of citizenship and transforms our understanding of disability and belonging. Contributors: Emily Abel, Douglas C. Baynton, Susan Burch, Allison C. Carey, Faye Ginsburg, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Hannah Joyner, Catherine Kudlick, Beth Linker, Alex Lubet, Rayna Rapp, Susan Schweik, Tobin Siebers, Lorella Terzi.

Author : Joseph P. Shapiro
Publisher : Crown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307798329

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No Pity by Joseph P. Shapiro Pdf

“A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post “The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune “Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society’s myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.”—from the Introduction

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ex-convicts
ISBN : PURD:32754067535504

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Civil Disabilities of Convicted Felons by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Jews
ISBN : OXFORD:555095943

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Remarks on the Civil Disabilities of British Jews by Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid Pdf

Author : Dustin Galer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487521301

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Working towards Equity by Dustin Galer Pdf

In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.

Author : Susan Dudley Gold
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN : 1608700399

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Americans with Disabilities Act by Susan Dudley Gold Pdf

Americans with Disabilities Act The history of the United States is, in large part, the history of its Landmark Legislation. In this series, the authors take the reader behind the scenes to show the drama that led to each bill's being passed and the effect each piece of legislation has had in the development of our country. Each book includes an informative "From Bill to Law" feature, which explains in easy-to-follow fashion how the process of legislation works. Americans with Disabilities Act tells the inspiring story of how people with disabilities-and their supporters-fought to win their civil rights and an equal opportunity to attain the American dream. Book jacket.

Author : Carmine Conte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509945153

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Union by Carmine Conte Pdf

This book analyses the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on EU non-discrimination law and governance. The CRPD places the protection of persons with disabilities at the heart of international human rights law. The Convention is the first human rights treaty open for signatures by regional organisations, and the European Union favourably acceded to it in December 2010. Ten years after this historic event, this book explores whether the theory has been put into practice, and examines the effects of the CRPD on EU non-discrimination law and governance. This book brings together the practices of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) with regard to disability discrimination to show whether the CRPD is living up to its full potential to substantially improve the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the EU. It examines whether the judicial interpretation of the Directive 2000/78/EC, establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, does or does not comply with the new legal background delineated by the CRPD. In addition, it investigates whether the governance mechanisms underlying the EU Framework for promoting, protecting and monitoring the CRPD are effectively fostering the implementation of the CRPD and the role of civil society. The prohibition of discrimination on grounds of disability has undergone substantial changes and developments since it was first introduced under international and EU law. This book highlights the main changes to disability discrimination which have occurred in the EU legal order in the last ten years. The book will be of interest to academics, law students and legal practitioners working in the field of EU non-discrimination and equality law.

Author : Leslie Francis,Anita Silvers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317958581

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Americans with Disabilities by Leslie Francis,Anita Silvers Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, leading philosophers, legal theorists, bioethicists, and policy makers offer incisive looks into the philosophical and moral foundations of disability law and policy.

Author : Peter David Blanck
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0810116898

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Employment, Disability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act by Peter David Blanck Pdf

The Americans with Disabilities Act was heralded by its congressional sponsors as an emancipation proclamation for people with disabilities and as the most important civil rights legislation passed in a generation. This book offers an assessment of what has actually occurred since the ADA's enactment in 1990. In empirically based articles, contributors from the fields of law, health policy, government, and business reveal the unsoundness of charges from the right that the ADA will bankrupt industry, and assumptions on the left that the ADA will prove ineffective in helping people with disabilities enter and remain in the workforce.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : PURD:32754061146092

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Legislative History of Public Law 101-336, the Americans with Disabilities Act by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN : UCR:31210015472622

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Oversight Hearing on H.R. 4498, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1988 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education Pdf

Author : I. Leslie Rubin,Joav Merrick,Donald E. Greydanus,Dilip R. Patel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 2307 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319180960

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Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan by I. Leslie Rubin,Joav Merrick,Donald E. Greydanus,Dilip R. Patel Pdf

This book provides a broad overview of quality health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It focuses on providing the reader a practical approach to dealing with the health and well-being of people with IDD in general terms as well as in dealing with specific conditions. In addition, it offers the reader a perspective from many different points of view in the health care delivery system as well as in different parts of the world. This is the 3rd , and much expanded edition, of a text that was first published in 1989 (Lea and Fibiger). The second edition was published in 2006 (Paul Brookes) and has been used as a formal required text in training programs for physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners as well as by administrators who are responsible for programs serving people with IDD. This book is considered the “Bible” in the field of health care for people with IDD since 1989 when the first edition came out.

Author : Martha E. Banks Ph.D.,Mariah S. Gover,Elizabeth Kendall,Catherine A. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313346057

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Disabilities by Martha E. Banks Ph.D.,Mariah S. Gover,Elizabeth Kendall,Catherine A. Marshall Pdf

In this three-volume set, experts from around the world spotlight the latest research on physical and psychological disabilities, as well as the social, legal, and political issues that come to bear on those people affected. These authors teach us what the disabilities are, how common they have become, what challenges people with disabilities face, what treatments are available, and whether new promising efforts for rehabilitation are on the horizon. We also learn, in these volumes, about social actions that have advanced human rights for people with disabilities in countries around the world. Yet, we learn that in these same countries, discriminatory actions against people with disabilities continue to occur. The impact of different cultural beliefs about disability are explored and these beliefs are juxtaposed against legislative responses. In all three volumes, people with disabilities share their personal narratives about events they have faced in society. They provide rich examples of how culture, social interactions, and legislation can impact on people.

Author : Deborah Stienstra
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552665688

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About Canada: Disability Rights by Deborah Stienstra Pdf

Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with disabilities, Deborah Stienstra argues that disability is not about “faulty” bodies that need to be fixed, but about the institutional, cultural and attitudinal reactions to certain kinds of bodies, and that neoliberal ideas of independence and individualism are at the heart of the continuing discrimination against “disabled” people. Stienstra contends that achieving disability rights is possible, but not through efforts to “fix” certain kinds of bodies. Rather it can be achieved through universal design, disability supports, social and economic supports and belonging — in short, through foundational social transformation of Canadian society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Children with mental disabilities
ISBN : PURD:32754081633111

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Equal Educational Opportunity and Nondiscrimination for Students with Disabilities by Anonim Pdf

This report focuses on issues relating to the development of individualized education programs for and placement of students who are classified as having mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioral disabilities, or serious emotional disturbances. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights examined present-day barriers and inequities that deny students with these types of disabilities an equal opportunity to participate in educational programs. The report analyzes and evaluates the Office for Civil Right's (OCR) implementation, compliance, and enforcement efforts for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. It discusses other Federal disability laws, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, to the extent that they relate to Section 504.