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Backlash against the ADA : reinterpreting disability rights / edited by Linda Hamilton Krieger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--United States--History.
- History.
- People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2003.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- For civil rights lawyers who had toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the seemingly charmed passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act through the U.S. House and Senate and across a Republican president's desk in 1990 seemed almost fantastical. Not long after the act's effective date, however, members of the disability community began to voice fears of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion makers. After the Supreme Court issued decisions sharply limiting the ADA's reach, followed by a decision the following summer invalidating an entire title of the act as it applied to the states, disability activists and disability rights lawyers were speaking openly of a backlash against the ADA. What happened, why did it happen, and what can we learn from the patterns of public, media, and judicial response to the ADA that emerged in the past decade? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, and scholars from political science, history, law, sociology, psychology, and English literature whose work centers on disability grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a powerful new model of socio-legal change and retrenchment that can inform both scholarship and activism. This book will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history.
- Contents:
- Accommodations and the ADA: Unreasonable Bias or Biased Reasoning? / Harlan Hahn 26
- Judicial Backlash, the ADA, and the Civil Rights Model of Disability / Matthew Diller 62
- Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Narcissism, and the Law / Lennard J. Davis 98
- Plain Meaning and Mitigating Measures: Judicial Construction of the Meaning of Disability / Wendy E. Parmet 122
- The ADA and the Meaning of Disability / Kay Schriner, Richard K. Scotch 164
- Psychiatric Disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the New Workplace Violence Account / Vicki A. Laden, Gregory Schwartz 189
- From Plessy (1896) and Goesart (1948) to Cleburne (1985) and Garrett (2001): A Chill Wind from the Past Blows Equal Protection Away / Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein 221
- Backlash, the Political Economy, and Structural Exclusion / Marta Russell 254
- Administrative Remedies and Legal Disputes: Evidence on Key Controversies Underlying Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act / Stephen L. Percy 297
- The Death of Section 504 / Ruth Colker 323
- Sociolegal Backlash / Linda Hamilton Krieger 340.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472068258
- 047209825X
- 0472068253
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.11962
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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