Disability Rights

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There is great diversity of definitions, causes and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities, yet there are fundamental themes uniting countries in their pursuit of human rights policies to improve the social and economic status of those with disabilities. In this volume are twenty-five important articles examining historical, contemporary and comparative issues crucial to the advancement of disability rights. The volume foreshadows the future of disability rights as a medium for ensuring that those living with disabilities participate as equal citizens of the world. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Foreword Introduction PART I RISE OF DISABILITY RIGHTS 1 ‘Before Disability Civil Rights: Civil War Pensions and the Politics of Disability in America’, Alabama Law Review, 52, pp. 1–50 2 ‘Disability Policy and Politics: Considering Consumer Influences’, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 11, pp. 31–39 3 ‘Disability Studies: A Historical Materialist View’, Disability and Society, 12, pp. 179–202 4 ‘The Politics of Disability’, Critical Social Policy, 11, pp. 21–32 5 ‘Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim: Some Reflections on the Cripple as Negro’, American Scholar, 38, pp. 412–30 PART II LAW OF DISABILITY RIGHTS 6 ‘International Disability Law - A New Legal Subject on the Rise: The Interregional Experts’ Meeting in Hong Kong, December 13-17, 1999’, Berkeley Journal of International Law, 18, pp. 180–95 7 ‘The Development of the Disability Rights Movement as a Social Problem Solver’, electronic version (26 pp) of Disability Studies Quarterly, 23, originally pp. 33–61 8 ‘Reassessing the Employment of People with Disabilities in Europe: From Quotas to Anti-Discrimination Laws’, Comparative Labor Law Journal, 18, pp. 62–101 9 ‘The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (CTH): A Three-Dimensional Approach to Operationalising Human Rights’, Melbourne University Law Review, 26, pp. 254–84 10 ‘The ADA on the Road: Disability Rights in Germany’, Law and Social Inquiry, 27, pp. 723–62 11 ‘The Disability Rights Movement in Japan: Past, Present, and Future’, Disability and Society, 16, pp. 855–69 12 ‘Disability Rights in Latin America and International Cooperation’, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, 9, pp. 109–30 PART III ASSESSMENT OF DISABILITY RIGHTS 13 ‘Changing the Social Relations of Research Production?’, Disability, Handicap & Society, 7, pp. 101–14 14 ‘Disability and the Myth of the Independent Researcher’, Disability & Society, 11, pp. 107–10 15 ‘Disability and the Myth of the Independent Researcher: A Reply’, Disability & Society, 11, pp. 111–13 16 ‘Rules of Engagement: Doing Disability Research’, Disability & Society, 11, pp. 115–19 17 ‘Antidiscrimination Laws and Social Research on Disability: The Minority Group Perspective’, Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 14, pp. 41–59 18 ‘Empirical Implications of Title I’, Iowa Law Review, 85, pp. 1671–90 19 ‘Calibrating the Impact of the ADA’s Employment Provisions’, Stanford Law & Policy Review, 14, pp. 267–90 20 ‘Does a Needs-Led Delivery of Services Undermine Disability Discrimination Principles?’, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 5, pp. 281–95 PART IV FUTURE OF DISABILITY RIGHTS 21 ‘Defending the Social Model’, Disability & Society, 12, pp. 293–300 22 ‘Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity’, Ohio State Law Journal, 62, pp. 391–423 23 ‘Towards A Concept of Equality of Well-Being: Overcoming the Social and Legal Construction of Inequality’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 7, pp. 127–47 24 ‘The Globalization of Disability Rights Law’, Syracuse Journal of International Law & Commerce, 30, pp. 241–69 25 ‘Closing: Next Steps - Towards a United Nations Treaty on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, written for this volume and based on a paper delivered for the Valerie Gordan Memorial Lecture at Northeastern Law School on 1 April 2004, pp. 1–23 Name Index