Disability harassment / Mark C. Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Mark C., 1953-

Series:

Critical America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

Harassment--Law and legislation--United States.

Harassment.

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

People with disabilities.

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

Students with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9780814784686

0814784682

9780814795071

0814795072

9781429490252

142949025X

OCLC:

779828428