Disabling barriers : social movements, disability history, and the law /
"Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal d...
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| Language: | English |
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Vancouver ; Toronto :
UBC Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Disability culture and politics
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Table of Contents:
- Bearing the marks of capital : solidarities and fractures in E.T. Kingsley's British Columbia / Mark Leier
- Employers, disabled workers, and the war on attitudes in late twentieth century Canada / Dustin Galer
- Gender and the value of work in Canadian disability history / Geoffrey Reaume
- Dancing with a cane : the public perception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's disability / Anne Finger
- Disability in motion : aesthetics, embodiment, sensation, and the emergence of modern vestibular science in the nineteen century / Mark Walters
- "Of dark type and poor physique" : law, immigration restriction, and disability in Canada, 1900-30 / Jen Rinaldi and Jay Dolmage
- Battling the warrior-litigator : an exploration of chronic illness and employment discrimination paradigms / Odelia R. Bay
- Towards full inclusion : addressing the issue of income inequality for people with disabilities in Canada / Megan A. Rusciano
- Compensating work-related disability : the theory, politics, and history of the commodification-decommodification dialectic / Eric Tucker.