Disabling barriers social movements, disability history, and the law / edited by Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt.

Other author Malhotra, Ravi (Professor)
Other author Isitt, Benjamin, 1978-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoVancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2017]
Descriptionxii, 227 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesDisability culture and politics
Disability culture and politics. UNAUTHORIZED
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Other formsIssued also in electronic format.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016590837
ISBN9780774835237 (hardcover)
ISBN0774835230 (hardcover)

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