Despite the widespread belief that Canada is a country of liberty, equality, and inclusiveness, many persons with disabilities experience social exclusion and marginalization. In this book, twenty-four scholars from a variety of disciplines contend that achieving equality for the disabled is not fundamentally a question of medicine or health, nor is it an issue of sensitivity or compassion. Rather, it is a question of politics, and of power and powerlessness. This book argues that we need a new understanding of participatory citizenship that encompasses the disabled, new policies to respond to their needs, and a new vision of their entitlements.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.9/08
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780774851695 9780774812030
- LCCN
- HV1559.C3
- LCCN Item number
- C747 2006eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 336 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)gtp00521789 (OCoLC)144086087 (CaOOCEL)404153
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Disability
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Figures and Tables 10
- Preface 12
- Introduction: Toward a Critical Theory of Dis-Citizenship 16
- Part 1: Setting the Context 38
- 1 Disability Policy Making: Evaluating the Evidence Base 40
- Part 2: Conceptual Frameworks 60
- 2 Does Theory Matter? Exploring the Nexus between Disability, Human Rights, and Public Policy 62
- 3 Justice as Fairness in Accommodating Workers with Disabilities and Critical Theory: The Limitations of a Rawlsian Framework for Empowering People with Disabilities in Canada 85
- 4 Multicultural Citizenship: The Case of the Disabled 102
- 5 Ghosts in the Machine: Civil Rights Laws and the Hybrid "Invisible Other" 121
- Part 3: Policy Analyses 142
- 6 Working at the Margins: Disabled People and the Growth of Precarious Employment 144
- 7 A Life without Living: Challenging Medical and Economic Reductionism in Home Support Policy for People with Disabilities 166
- 8 Autism as Public Policy 192
- 9 Post-Secondary Education and Disabled Students: Mining a Level Playing Field or Playing in a Minefield? 210
- Part 4: Legal Interrogations 236
- 10 Now You See Her, Now You Don't: How Law Shapes Disabled Women's Experience of Exposure, Surveillance, and Assessment in the Clinical Encounter 238
- 11 Damage Quantification in Tort and Pre-Existing Conditions: Arguments for a Reconceptualization 263
- 12 Beyond Compassion and Sympathy to Respect and Equality: Gendered Disability and Equality Rights Law 282
- 13 Infertility and the Parameters of Discrimination Discourse 300
- Appendix: Legal Developments in the Supreme Court of Canada Regarding Disability 320
- Contributors 333
- Index 336
- A 336
- B 337
- C 337
- D 340
- E 341
- F 341
- G 342
- H 342
- I 343
- J 344
- K 344
- L 344
- M 345
- N 346
- O 346
- P 346
- Q 347
- R 347
- S 347
- T 349
- U 349
- V 350
- W 350
