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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krieger, Linda Hamilton, 1954-

Series:

Corporealities.

Corporealities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-59379-X

9786612593796

0-472-02549-X

OCLC:

923501561