Disability and the law Books

Book SynopsisFrom workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth century brought the issue of disability—what it was, what it meant, and how to address it—into national focus. Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America explores the history of disability activism, concentrating on the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped (AFPH), a national, cross-disability organization founded during World War II to address federal disability policy. Unlike earlier disability groups, which had been organized around specific disabilities or shared military experience, AFPH brought thousands of disabled citizens and veterans into the national political arena, demanding equal access to economic security and full citizenship. At its core, the AFPH legislative campaign pushed the federal government to move disabled citizens from the margins to the center of the welfare state. Through extensive archival research, Audra Jennings examines the history of AFPH and its enduring legacy in the disability rights movement. Counter to most narratives that place the inception of disability activism in the 1970s, Jennings argues that the disability rights movement is firmly rooted in the politics of World War II. In the years immediately following the war, leaders in AFPH worked with organized labor movements to advocate for an ambitious political agenda, including employer education campaigns, a federal pension program, improved access to healthcare and education, and an affirmative action program for disabled workers. Out of the Horrors of War extends the arc of the disability rights movement into the 1940s and traces how its terms of inclusion influenced the movement for decades after, leading up to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.Trade Review"Out of the Horrors of War masterfully shows how disability is not merely 'another' analytic category for historical analysis, but is rather a crucial part of US political and policy history in the twentieth century." * H-Disability *"Out of the Horrors of War offers a most important addition to both the history of disability and the history of the U.S. welfare state. Well written and well researched, it demonstrates that the 1940s and 1950s were not a lull in the history of disability activism followed by the better-known activism of the 1960s and 1970s." * American Historical Review *"Jennings challenges scholars to reimagine the disability rights movement not as a recent phenomenon but as a decades-long continuum of activism and political engagement. . . . Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand—and anyone seeking to overcome—the obstacles faced by disability activists on Capitol Hill today." * Journal of Social History *"Jennings clearly spent countless hours in numerous archives in order to document her detailed and convincing account of the AFPH. . . . Out of the Horrors of War is thus an impressive work that will engage historians of disability, of civil rights, and of the US welfare state, as well as their graduate and undergraduate students." * Journal of American Studies *"Policy history with the people left in, Out of the Horrors of War shows that the labor shortage of WWII sparked a drive for disability rights much earlier than generally recounted. Audra Jennings astutely reveals how conflicts within the Truman administration, strong personalities, and contrasting concepts of rehabilitation waylaid the efforts of people with disabilities to obtain full economic citizenship." * Eileen Boris, coauthor, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State *"Audra Jennings is a tenacious and creative researcher who has produced an important contribution to the history of disability and disability rights movements in the United States." * Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont *"Out of the Horrors of War situates the origins of the disability rights movement squarely in the postwar period and persuasively revises the American narrative of citizenship and rights." * Kim Nielsen, University of Toledo *

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Book Synopsis2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner 2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Reviews An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media. Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition, affect, and publishing, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Disability alters, generates, and dismantles method. Crip authorship takes place within and beyond the commodity version of authorship, in books, on social media, and in creative works that will never be published. The chapters draw on the expertise of international researchers and activists in the humanities, social sciences, education, arts, and design. Across five sectionsWriting, Research, Genre/Form, Publishing, Mediacontributors consider disability as method for creative work: practices of writing and other forms of composition; research methods and collaboration; crip aesthetics; media formats and hacks; and the capital, access, legal standing, and care networks required to publish. Designed to be accessible and engaging for students, Crip Authorship also provides theoretically sophisticated arguments in a condensed form that will make the text a key resource for disability studies scholars. Essays include Mel Y Chen on the temporality of writing with chronic illness; Remi Yergeau on perseveration; La Marr Jurelle Bruce on mad Black writing; Alison Kafer on the reliance of the manifesto genre on disability; Jaipreet Virdi on public scholarship for disability justice; Ellen Samuels on the importance of disability and illness to autotheory; Xuan Thuy Nguyen on decolonial research methods for disability studies; Emily Lim Rogers on virtual ethnography; Cameron Awkward-Rich on depression and trans reading methods; Robert McRuer on crip theory in translation; Kelsie Acton on plain language writing; and Georgina Kleege on description as an access and aesthetic technique.Trade Review"Crip Authorship moves directly into the most urgent debates in critical disability studies, focusing on questions of methodology, race, queerness, cross-disability solidarity, and what it means to make or publish crip work. An extraordinary array of authors, both emerging and well-known, contribute original pieces and provoke thrilling new conversations. This remarkable volume will be of interest to readers across many fields and methodological orientations. Crip Authorship argues for, and also demonstrates, the powerful interdisciplinarity of crip scholarship and its potential to work toward greater justice." * Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime *"This is a fantastic, urgent, singular, and kaleidoscopic book. Crip Authorship uses disability to explode the very idea of method: this is a book about research, but also about writing, thinking, publishing, and inhabiting. Crip Authorship is essential reading for any scholar who does anything with disability in their work; it is even more essential reading for those who don’t. This is a field-changing collection." * Jonathan Sterne, author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment *"This field-changing collection is theoretically sophisticated and politically charged! This book crucially shows how disability is not only an identity formation, but also a method to revise how we write, critique, and enact change. The collection most importantly engages disability as it relates to race, the non-West, colonialism, sexuality, gender identity, and class, offering an exciting and much needed model for our field. This text redefines how we theorize, imagine, and produce disability." * Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego *"This illuminating collection of essays focuses on the variety and value of crip creation, methodology, writing and research. With contributions from Mel Y Chen, Jaipreet Virdi, Emily Lim Rogers, Ellen Samuels and many more, it is urgent and original." -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *"The intent of this collective volume, expertly edited by long-standing disability advocates and scholars Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, is to show how disability can function as a methodologic prism to perceive authorship issues and return them in a radically different way, finding natural intersections with a whole universe of critical studies representing organization studies in diverse manners." * PuntoOrg *

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Book SynopsisIn 1939, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs, despite her claims that she was perfectly well. A history of mental capacity law in twentieth-century England and Wales, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of mental illness, citizenship, care, and the role of the state.Trade Review“Weston built her book masterfully on the ‘small story’ of Miss Alexander, recognising the gaps in knowledge due to incomplete archival material. The gaps, as well as the story, create a base for discussion of themes such as personal autonomy, vulnerabilities, care and control, as well as challenges for historians, such as about dealing with ambiguities and filling gaps using imagination or speculation.” The Social History of Medicine

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Book SynopsisIn 1939, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs, despite her claims that she was perfectly well. A history of mental capacity law in twentieth-century England and Wales, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of mental illness, citizenship, care, and the role of the state.Trade Review“Weston built her book masterfully on the ‘small story’ of Miss Alexander, recognising the gaps in knowledge due to incomplete archival material. The gaps, as well as the story, create a base for discussion of themes such as personal autonomy, vulnerabilities, care and control, as well as challenges for historians, such as about dealing with ambiguities and filling gaps using imagination or speculation.” The Social History of Medicine

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As a disability history, the book excels. . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education achieves its goal of creating a comprehensive account of Zobrest that considers disability rights, history, and constitutional law." --Journal of Church and State"The definitive history of the landmark US Supreme Court case Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District 1993 . . . This is a great volume for legal scholars, families of special needs children, and school administrators. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"An excellent job of telling the story of the Zobrests . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education has so much to recommend it, both in its fascinating topic and its nuanced engagement with it." --H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisIn 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina Foothills School District argued that providing a public resource for a private, religious school created an unlawful crossover between church and state. The Zobrests, however, claimed that the district had infringed on both their First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests'' story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family''s effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-stateTrade Review"As a disability history, the book excels. . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education achieves its goal of creating a comprehensive account of Zobrest that considers disability rights, history, and constitutional law." --Journal of Church and State"The definitive history of the landmark US Supreme Court case Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District 1993 . . . This is a great volume for legal scholars, families of special needs children, and school administrators. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"An excellent job of telling the story of the Zobrests . . . Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education has so much to recommend it, both in its fascinating topic and its nuanced engagement with it." --H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisThis analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media by policymakers, corporations, programmers and the disabled themselves.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to disability studies literature and lays the groundwork for more work on technology and disability issues. Graduate students, disability studies scholars, and those exploring the sociology of digital technology will benefit from this book. Recommended. * CHOICE *Goggin and Newell offer a thought provoking analysis of the ways in which the 'new media'—the digitization and advancement of new communications technologies—and the culture of people with disabilities intersect. Their discerning critique forces readers to contemplate the extent to which emerging technologies, rather than liberating people with disabilities, are perpetuating their stigmatization and keeping them at the margins of our society. In their bold and sometimes controversial examination of the issue, Goggin and Newell challenge the regulators and corporations that control and shape new technologies to begin empowering people with disabilities by including them in the policy decisions and design processes that define the new media. An insightful book for anyone working in the field of telecommunications and people with disabilities. -- Karen Peltz Strauss, Gallaudet University and former Deputy Bureau Chief, Consumer Information Bureau of the Federal Communications CommissionDigital Disability is the place to start if you're concerned about the intersection of disability and new media. Far from being an automatic source of liberation, the authors show that the Internet is simply another arena for the social creation of disability, though in new forms. The authors expose the social nature of both disability and technology, revealing that disability in the so-called information society is a result of human decisions in which people with disability have all too little say. Using case studies from the Sydney Olympics to chat groups, Digital Disability opens the door to a critical understanding of the technology-disability connection, showing that neither technology nor disability are 'natural' but rather that both are bound up with the exercise of power in society. -- Brian Martin, University of Wollongong, AustraliaThis book is wide-ranging and ambitious; substantively, it takes in subjects as diverse as cochlear implants, cyborg entities, the Internet, the multi-media access potential of digital broadcasting, the televisual representation of disabled people, Deaf culture, and text-based communication. Theoretically, the book also spans a wide range of issues in exploring the cross-national policy contexts of Australia, the U.S., the UK, and Continental Europe. Most ambitious of all is the attempt to apply postmodern insights into questions of human technology boundaries and identities. The book has an extensive bibliography, which testifies to the breadth of reading that has been undertaken for this work. * Disability & Society *Communication technology is frequently heralded as a panacea for disabled people. Often in practice it further excludes us. Goggin and Newell provide an accessible and hard-hitting account of this fast-changing field. I hope this book is read by those who develop and regulate mobile telephony, broadcasting, and the Internet, so that disabled people can truly benefit from the new information age. -- Tom ShakespeareTable of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Technologies of Disability Chapter 3 Encountering Technology, Media and Culture Chapter 4 Disability in its Social Context Part 5 Networks of Disability Chapter 6 Holding the Line: Telecommunications and Disability Chapter 7 Disability on the Digital Margins: Convergence and the Construction of Disability Part 8 New Mediations of Disability Chapter 9 Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting Futures Chapter 10 Blindspots on the Internet Chapter 11 Cultures of Digital Disability Part 12 Politics of Disabling Digitization Chapter 13 Rewiring Disability

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Book SynopsisAble to Lead tells the forgotten story of the life of double amputee E.T. Kingsley, a pioneering politician, and labour and justice activist.Trade ReviewThe authors’ focus on this historical figure enriches and widens the lens on BC’s history. -- Janet Nicol * BC Studies *Able to Lead... portrays the fractured politics of the B.C. labour left, providing an admiring account of the role of one man in that process… [the book] should achieve its stated goal of encouraging a new perception of the capabilities of disabled people while also prompting a rethink of the early North American left. -- Ron Verzuh, documentary filmmaker * The Ormsby Review *Able to Lead paints a vivid picture of a fascinating political figure whose oratory one would have liked to have experienced first-hand. -- Giselle Gerolami * Against the Current *...the book provides a rich and lively account of a dynamic period in the history of the Canadian left— and tantalizing glimpses of an extraordinary man who lived in the thick of it. -- John Baglow * Literary Review of Canada *...Malhotra and Isitt are to be commended for a book that, besides providing extraordinarily useful information on subjects ranging from the ubiquity of railway accidents in the late nineteenth century to the influence of eugenics on Canadian immigration policies at the same time, recognizes that Kingsley, even though he never spoke or wrote of his disability, likely constantly had to make decisions, whether about the class struggle or where to live, that reflected its existence in an ablist world. -- Neil Dhingra, University of Maryland * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Incident at Spring Gulch: Disablement, Litigation, and the Birth of a Revolutionary2 California Radical: Fighting for Free Speech and Running for Congress in the Socialist Labor Party3 Crossing the Line: Eugene Kingsley Arrives in British Columbia4 No Compromise: Kingsley and the Socialist Party of Canada5 Kingsley and the State6 The Twilight Years: Kingsley and the 1920s Canadian LeftConclusionAppendix 1: Timeline of the Life and Political Times of E.T. KingsleyAppendix 2: E.T. Kingsley Election ResultsAppendix 3: Partial Record of E.T. Kingsley’s Public Speeches and LecturesAppendix 4: Obituary for E.T. KingsleyNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisDisability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit in several human rights instruments and is featured prominently in Articles 9 and 21 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to access ICT, moreover, invokes complementary civil and human rights issues: freedom of expression; freedom to information; political participation; civic engagement; inclusive education; the right to access the highest level of scientific and technological information; and participation in social and cultural opportunities.Despite the ready availability and minimal cost of technology to enable people with disabilities to access ICT on an equal footing as consumers without disabilities, prevailing practice around the Trade Review"This is an exciting and much-needed project. The right to accessibility has received relatively little academic attention and this book performs a field-defining role." * Anna Lawson, University of Leeds *"As information technology continues to transform human endeavor, it poses new challenges to law and regulation in many sectors. Disability is such a sector. There is no other book that provides so many insights into the rapidly evolving international scene." * Clayton H. Lewis, University of Colorado, Boulder *

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Book SynopsisRenowned photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo presents a moving photographic chronicle—a celebration—filled with more than one hundred dynamic images and thirty evocative stories of people with intellectual disabilities, those who may have been born with Down syndrome, autism, or who are "otherwise abled." Trade Review"This is a very special book indeed. Poignant, powerful and heart rending to say the least, Vincenzo Pietropaolo has through his photographs and short evocative stories that accompany them, made visible the too often invisible lives of individuals who are born with intellectual disabilities." * Metapsychology *"Invisible No More is special for its blend of Pietropaolo techniques-from straightforward news photography to painterly evocations-and for the perceptual ruse it plays on its readers." * Toronto Star *Table of Contents Photographs and stories Friendship Confidence Adoption Mothers Puppy love Amy and Ginny Apprehension Reflections Sound surfer Doubt Navigating Acceptance Making raindrops No patronage, please Immigration Bells of inclusion Dance of wheelchairs Theater Max, a musician Opera tales Confluences Like an ex-convict Family A piano concerto Baby brothers Dinner Baby won't cry Working for a living A walk in the park Cyberspace The ice patch Health care professionals On children's books Retirement home Oak tree

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Book SynopsisReveals the IDEA's shortcomings, but also suggests ways in which resources might be allocated more evenly along class linesTrade ReviewA shocking, important, and even frightening book that unveils the mistreatment of disabled learners seeking an appropriate education in public school settings. We meet innocent children and desperate parents trying to navigate an entrenched bureaucratic and uncaring educational system that is further enabled by inept hearing officers who turn a deaf ear to the needs of the children and to the law. A must read for parents, educators, policy-makers and anyone who cares about the future of education in America. Scientific knowledge has progressed too far to accept this shameful treatment of children from all backgrounds and socio-economic groups; this book is a wake-up call for up-dating policies, procedures and laws affecting children who struggle in school. -- Sally Shaywitz, MD,author of Overcoming DyslexiaColker (Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State Univ.) presents a detailed examination of the origins and implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The powerful and extremely engaging book is based on extensive archival research that sheds new light on this important subject. -- N. Kraus * Choice *Colker's work provides both a broad and deep examination of the central legaland moralconundrum of the special education system: why the very same system can provide helpful and desired support for wealthier, often white, children with disabilities while providing less helpful and even exclusionary programs for low-income, often minority, children with disabilities. A leader in the field of disability law, Colker persuasively traces the answer through statutory analysis and legislative history, Supreme Court opinions and their back stories, and state-level administrative hearing officer decisions. The result is a compelling study that should inform policy makers and advocates in discussions about reforming the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in the years to come. -- Eloise Pasachoff,Georgetown University Law CenterThe author, a professor at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, knows her stuff inside and out. -- Barbara Kate Repa * California Lawyer *Disabled Education is a unique and important work. For the first time, this book tells the stories of the families who set key precedents for children with special needs. It also gives a novel and in-depth description of the political and legislative process of the landmark Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. In so doing, Professor Ruth Colker offers an unprecedented historical account of this law, while also offering a timely critique and suggestions for reform. -- Julie K. Waterstone,Southwestern Law SchoolFor anyone intent on our public schools providing equal educational opportunities to students with disabilities, Disabled Education is a comprehensive vision of how far we have yet to come and why. For attorneys and advocates, it provides insight into why there is such a headwind against students with disabilities receiving an effective and meaningful education. For judges, it delivers a challenge to reach more just, informed decisions, fully respecting the free appropriate educational opportunity guarantees of the IDEA. For those who teach, develop and enforce education policy through our civil rights laws, it presents a compelling insight into how and why the shortcomings of the special education system fall hardest on poor students, students of color and limited-English speaking students. -- Paul D. Grossman,Hastings College of Law, University of California"Disabled Education confronts head-on an unfortunate truth that all of us who are special education advocates have known for a long time: the system is, at best, inconsistently meeting the needs of low-income and minority children. Unlike other accounts of the systems imperfections, Colkers delves deeply and painstakingly into the rich human narratives contained in federal and state judicial decisions so that we can see in real terms the difficulties many families face as they crusade to obtain an appropriate education for their children. Not content to simply notice the disturbing reality, Disabled Educations detailed analysis provides a much more valuable contribution; it moves us closer to understanding why the system is not working equally for all families, how the system came to be this way, and what we need to do to fix it. -- Michael Gregory,Harvard Law SchoolTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Education for All Handicapped Children Act: Historical Evolution 3. Amy Rowley 4. Michael Panico 5. Post-1975 Amendments 6. Brian Schaffer 7. Joseph Murphy 8. Ohio 9. Florida 10. New Jersey 11. California 12. District of Columbia 13. The Learning Disability Mess 14. A New Beginning Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisSigned into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began to multiply in the middle of the decade. This book presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Congress and analyzes the first decade of judicial decisions under the act.Trade ReviewThe Disability Pendulum chronicles societal views and court reactions to the evolving ADA. Ruth Colker shows that public acceptance and inclusion of persons with disabilities into society is as much driven by attitudes about disability as by law and policy themselves. Colker offers an enriched and fresh analysis of the forces affecting the civil rights movement of persons with disabilities in American society. -- Peter Blank,Charles M. and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law and Director, Law, Health Policy & Disability Center, University of Iowa College of LawRuth Colkers book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in disability rights. Colker has long been one of the most astute observers of the development of disability rights in the courts. This book lays out the compelling story of what the ADA was intended to do and what the courts have done to the ADA. The book is both inspiring and sobering. -- Chai Feldblum,Georgetown University Law Center[A] comprehensive, factually-supported, and carefully reasoned book in a manner worthy of academic interest. At the same time, [Colker] writes in a plain style free of academic jargon and returns consistently to the human-interest arena of practical ramifications. * New York Law Journal *This book is must reading for teachers, school administrators, parents, vocational rehabilitation counselors, disability rights lawyers, and Deaf Community leaders who hope to help take the citizen ship interests of deaf and hard-of-hearing people to the next level. The book helps these constituencies make the essential connections between raising and educating deaf children and the rights and opportunities those children hope to enjoy * Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education *Colker's book provides a comprehensive review of the ADAs history and a thorough analysis of how effective it has been in vindicating the rights of the disabled. She does not paint a pretty picture, but it is an accurate, empirically based assessment. * Trial *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface 1 Introduction: High Hope Followed by Public Backlash 2 The ADA's Journey through Congress3 ADA Title I: An Empirical Investigation 4 The Face of Judicial Backlash 5 ADA Title II: The Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals, and the States: A Swinging Pendulum 6 ADA Title III: A Fragile Compromise 7 Dissing CongressNotesIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The release of Freakery is as much a comment on modern academia as it is an intriguing exploration of the enduring fascination with the construction and presentation of those "who have been coarsely categorized as 'freaks,' 'curiosities', prodigies' and 'monstrosities.'" * Ethnologies *

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Book SynopsisA guide to real-world applications of The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design Applying the ADA helps architects and developers understand better how the rules for eliminating barriers in the built environment apply to everyday life and how to best implement them in the design and construction of a broad variety of buildings and facilities. By showing how The 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design have been applied in various contexts and building types, this extensively illustrated guide helps readers quickly understand the requirements of the standards and how to apply them to both new construction and renovation. Written by an architect who consults regularly on accessibility issues for design professionals, building owners, and facility managers, this user-friendly guide features 100 photos and 150 drawings that take the guesswork out of applying the standards to real-world projects. BuildiTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction xi History xi Summary xii Chapter 1 General Guidelines 1 by Marcela Abadi Rhoads, AIA RAS General Guidelines 1 Building Blocks 2 Accessible Routes 9 General Site 10 Changes in Level 16 Accessible Entrances 16 Interior Accessible Route 17 Plumbing Fixtures 18 Communication Features 23 Summary 25 Chapter 2 Retail and Mixed-Use Facilities 27 by Marcela Abadi Rhoads, AIA RAS Introduction 27 Shopping Malls 28 Site Arrival Points 28 Minimum Number of Parking Spaces Closest to the Entrances 29 Accessible Route to Entrances 32 Accessible Entrances 38 Interior Accessible Route to Spaces 38 Retail Spaces 41 Checkout and Sales Counters 43 Dressing and Fitting Rooms 44 Employee Areas 46 Common-Use Spaces 52 Food Court 56 Play Areas 60 Strip Shopping Center 61 Site Arrival Point 63 Parking 66 Accessible Route 66 Tenant Entrances 66 Lifestyle Center 72 Parking 72 Accessible Route 74 Residential Facilities/Offices on Upper Floors 75 Summary 81 Chapter 3 Primary Education 85 by Wally Tirado, ICC RAS Introduction 85 Administrative Areas 86 Employee Work Areas 87 Service Areas 88 Service Yards and Loading Docks 89 General Application for Children Areas 89 Reach Ranges and Operating Mechanisms 92 Dining and Work Surfaces 92 Toilet Rooms and Elements 97 Drinking Fountains 98 Toilet Compartments 99 Water Closets and Accessories 99 Mirrors 102 Lavatories and Sinks 102 Dressing and Fitting Rooms 104 Signage 104 Ramps and Stairs 106 Assembly Areas 108 Outdoor Play Areas 111 Transportation Facilities 112 Passenger Loading Zones 112 Bus Loading Zones 112 Summary 113 Chapter 4 Secondary and Postsecondary Educa tion 117 by Wally Tirado, ICC RAS Introduction 117 Accessible Sites and Parking 118 Bus Loading Zones 118 Location and Dispersion of Parking 120 Leased/Assigned Parking 121 Playing Fields and Exterior Athletic Facilities 122 General Accessible Areas 127 Security Barriers 128 Temporary Structures and Facilities 129 Assembly Areas 129 Classrooms 130 Other Box Seating and Outdoor Seating 132 Performance Areas 135 Assistive Listening Systems (ALS) 141 Ticket Booths and Concession Stands 142 Libraries 142 Physical Education Facilities 143 Exercise Machines and Equipment 143 Dressing, Fitting, and Locker Rooms 146 Swimming Pools 148 Other Spectator Sports Areas 150 Dining Facilities 151 Administrative Areas 153 Housing at a Place of Education 158 Kitchens 159 Multi-Bedroom 159 Apartment or Townhouse Facilities 159 Summary 160 Chapter 5 Hospitality 163 by Jeromy Murphy, AIA RAS Introduction 163 New Construction 164 Existing Facilities 164 Public and Guest Areas 164 Guest Rooms with Mobility Features or Communications Features 173 Examples 177 Summary 179 Chapter 6 Healthcare and Senior Living Communities 183 by Greg Hunteman, AIA RAS Introduction 183 Different Types of Healthcare 183 Alterations to Existing Healthcare and Long-Term Care Facilities 184 General Guidelines 186 Accessible Routes 186 Individual Spaces 190 Patient and Resident Sleeping Rooms 191 Summary 198 Chapter 7 Amusement Parks and Play Areas 201 by Marcela Abadi Rhoads, AIA RAS Site Arrival 202 Play Areas 204 Ground Play Components 206 Elevated Play Components 209 Accessible Route 210 Entry Points and Seats 217 Play for Visually and Hearing Impaired 217 Amusement Rides 217 Fishing Piers 229 Summary 231 Chapter 8 Historic Preservation and Remodels 235 by Marcela Abadi Rhoads, AIA RAS Alterations 236 Entrances 242 Accessible Route 242 Path of Travel Elements 243 Tenant Finish-Outs 244 Alterations of Medical Care Facilities’ Patient Rooms 245 Alterations of Transient Lodging Sleeping Rooms 246 Alterations of Holding Cells 247 Alterations of Residential Dwelling Units 248 Alterations of Restaurants 249 Alterations of Dressing Rooms and Lockers Rooms 249 Disproportionality: The 20% Rule 249 Series of Smaller Alterations 250 Safe Harbor 251 Historic Facilities 252 Summary 254 Chapter 9 Residential Projects 259 by Jeromy Murphy, AIA RAS Introduction 259 Residential versus Transient Lodging 259 Applicability 260 Public and Common Use Spaces 263 Residential Dwelling Units 265 Summary 270 Chapter 10 Universal Design beyond the ADA 273 by Marcela Abadi Rhoads, AIA RAS PRINCIPLE ONE: Equitable Use 274 Principle One Design Guidelines 274 PRINCIPLE TWO: Flexibility in Use 277 Principle Two Design Guidelines 278 PRINCIPLE THREE: Simple and Intuitive Use 282 Principle Three Design Guidelines 282 PRINCIPLE FOUR: Perceptible Information 285 Principle Four Design Guidelines 286 PRINCIPLE FIVE: Tolerance for Error 289 Principle Five Design Guidelines 289 PRINCIPLE SIX: Low Physical Effort 294 Principle Six Design Guidelines 294 PRINCIPLE SEVEN: Size and Space for Approach and Use 298 Principle Seven Design Guidelines 298 Summary 302 Appendix A: Reference Ta bles 303 Appendix B: Resources 317 Index 319

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive ground-breaking southern African-centred collection spans the breadth of disability research and practice. Reputable and emerging scholars, together with disability advocates adopt a critical and interdisciplinary stance to prove, challenge and shift commonly held social understanding of disability in traditional discourses, frontiers and practices in prominent areas such as inter/national development, disability studies, education, culture, health, religion, gender, sports, tourism, ICT, theatre, media , housing and legislation. This handbook provides a body of interdisciplinary analyses suitable for the development of disability studies in southern Africa. Through drawing upon and introducing resources from several disciplines, theoretical perspectives and personal narratives from disability activists, it reflects on disability and sustainable development in southern Africa. It also addresses a clear need to bring together interdisciplinary perspeTrade Review'This much needed expansive text pulls in perspectives from activists, researchers, academics, lawyers and practitioners from health, the arts and education in order to centralise disability concerns in Southern Africa. While this book marks a significant turn - from the Global North to the Global South in disability studies - its important contributions will be felt across many national spaces when readers take seriously the sophisticated and unashamedly politicised analyses presented throughout the text. A significant, original and rigorous collection of work' - Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, the University of Sheffield‘The contributors present a wide range of perspectives: disabled people, disability activists, academics, not-for profits. Many are from the region (mainly Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia but Botswana, Malawi, Tanzania, Swaziland, Lesotho are also represented), but there are also global perspectives from USA, Finland and Norway, making this a truly international collection with an African focus. This essential book establishes a context for disability studies in southern Africa and will be of use to academics, practitioners and activists in the region who are concerned with disability inclusive development' – Associate Professor Judith McKenzie, Division of Disability Studies, University of Cape Town'This is a landmark contribution to Disability Studies in Southern Africa. Drawing upon experts and advocates from throughout the region, this well-edited volume provides breadth and depth to understanding an important range of political, socio-economic and psychological concerns of people living with disabilities, their families and their communities. This book should be on the shelf of anyone working on disability in Southern Africa – but just as importantly - with 15% of the world’s population now living with a disability, this volume should be read and shared by all who work on international development, global public health and social justice issues throughout the region.' Nora Ellen Groce, PhD, Leonard Cheshire Research Centre, University College LondonTable of ContentsPart 1: Disability Inclusion and Sustainable Development 1. Introduction: Critical Connections and Gaps in Disability and Development 2. Leave No One Behind: Disability Mainstreaming in Action 3. Reflections on the Development of the National Disability Mainstream Plan in Lesotho 4. Theatre for Development: Bringing Disabled Students’ Hidden Transcripts out of the Closet 5. Building Sustainable Communities: Why Inclusion Matters in the Post-Conflict Environment 6. Experiences of Disabled People in Using Information and Communication Technology in Mozambique Part 2: Access to Education 7. Personal Reflections of Disabled Women on Access to Early Childhood Education in Zimbabwe 8. Educating Deaf Children in Mainstream and Special Secondary School Settings: Inclusive Mirage or Reality? 9. Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Model in Changing the Discourse of Disability to Promote Inclusive Education in Zambia 10. Examining the Effectiveness of the Special Class Model in Zimbabwe Part 3: Inclusion in Higher Education 11. When Rights are Discretionary: Policy and Practice of Support Provision for Disabled Students in Southern Africa 12. Access, Equality and Inclusion of Disabled Students within South African Further and Higher Educational Institutions Part 4: Disability, Employment, Entrepreneurship & CBR 13. Community-Based Rehabilitation for Inclusive Social Development in Southern Africa 14. Employment, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Issues in Southern Africa 15. Enhancing Realistic Hopes and Aspirations towards Vocational Choices: Focus on Deaf Secondary Students in Zimbabwe Part 5: Religion, Gender and Parenthood 16. The ‘Unholy Trinity’ against Disabled People in Zimbabwe: Religion, Culture and the Bible 17. Addressing Disability and Gender in Education Development: Global Policies, Local Strategies 18. Socio-economic Barriers faced by Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe 19. Disability, Intimacy and Parenthood: Deconstructing ‘Mutually Exclusive’ Constructs Part 6: Tourism, Sports and Accessibility 20. Disability and Tourism in Southern Africa: A Policy Analysis 21. State and Status of Wheelchair Basketball Facilities in Zimbabwe 22. Mobile Outreach Seating Clinics: Improving Access to Wheelchair and Support Services Part 7: Narratives from Disability Activists 23. A Citizen of Two Worlds 24. Disability Advocacy through Media: Action Power 25. Disability Advocacy in Action: Why I Built an Accessible House in Zimbabwe 26. The Security Guard who turned the Lawyer into A Disability Activist 27. ‘For I know the Plans that I have for you’: the Story of my Life 28. Concluding Remarks and Future Direction

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Book SynopsisSocial contract theories generally predicate the authority of rules that govern society on the idea that these rules are the product of a contractual agreement struck between members of society. These theories embody values, such as equality, reciprocity and rationality, that are highly prized within our culture. Yet a closer inspection reveals that these features exclude other important values, relations and even persons from the realm of contractual morality and justice, especially people with severe intellectual disabilities. Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry explores the moral status of intellectually disabled people in social contract thought and argues that this tradition needs to be revisited to include the most vulnerable. Addressing this problem will have concrete repercussions in law and policy, because many issues that people with disabilities face are connected to deeply rooted assumptions about their status as full citizens or full members of our moral, political and legal communitiTable of Contents1. Intellectual disability and the social contract; 2. Inclusive contractarianism: persons with severe intellectual disabilities within a society of self-interested contractors; 3. The capacity to trust as a contractual basis for robust moral status; 4. People with severe intellectual disabilities as active citizens; 5. People with severe intellectual disabilities as passive citizens; 6. Other-regarding concern and exploitation; 7. Beyond contractual relations.

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Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles. The authors chronicle parents' path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complexand often tenserelationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabilities including cerebral palsy and muscular dyTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386

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Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complex—and often tense—relationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386

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Book SynopsisHow social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, more judges handle disability cases for the Social Security Administration than federal civil and criminal cases combined. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market, Jon C. Dubin challenges the contemporary policies for determining disability benefits and work assessment. He posits the fundamental questions: where are the jobs for persons with significant medical and vocational challenges? And how does the administration misfire in its standards and processes for answering that question? Deploying his profound understanding of the Social Security Administration and Disability law and policy, he demystifies the system, showing us its complex inner mechanisms and flaws, its history and evolution, and how changes in the labor market have rendered some agency processes obsolete. Dubin lays out hoTrade Review"This is an excellent, long-term overview of the social security disability programs that comes to grips with the current challenges and offers recommendations for ongoing reform. I don’t know of any project that’s assembled the history of these programs as comprehensively as Dubin has done. An excellent history by an extremely careful and well-known scholar." -- Matthew Diller, Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School"A comprehensive review of the influence of labor market considerations on the evolution of the Social Security Act’s disability standard and the administrative tools used to adjudicate the ‘ability to engage in substantial gainful activity’ component of that standard. In this important book, Dubin examines the implications of a changing labor market on the availability of jobs for persons with disabilities and explores the challenges that presents to the existing structure and administration of Social Security disability programs." -- Frank Bloch, editor of The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice"Provides a detailed account of the longstanding and ongoing disputes among Congress, the Social Security Administration, and the courts on the fundamental question of who should be excused from working because of disability and granted economic and health care support by the government. Dubin explores the obvious flaws in the current adjudicative system, including reliance on outdated labor market data, demonstrates the fallacious assumptions of those who would make the system even harsher than it is today, and suggests sensible improvements. A must read for policy wonks, as well as serious practitioners." -- Robert E. Rains, Professor Emeritus and founder of the Disability Law Clinic, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law

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Book SynopsisHow reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility. While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for some bodies than for others. A YouTube video without closed captions or a social network site that is incompatible with a screen reader can restrict the access of users who are hard of hearing or visually impaired. Often, people with disabilities require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of aid to make digital media accessibleuseablefor them.Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibilitythe processes by which media is made usable by people with particular needsand argues for the necessity of conceptualizing access in a way that will enable greater particiTrade ReviewElizabeth Ellcessor’s inspiring book Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation lies at the intersection of disability, technology, culture, and bodies, and it raises new questions in these intersecting research fields. It is a timely and welcome work that fills in the research gap between disability studies and media studies. -- International Journal of CommunicationEllcessor calls for cultural collaboration that does not exclude disability culture or attempt to erase disability culture in the name of universal design. * Choice *Restricted Accesstransforms our understanding of what 'access' means in an age when so much writing on new media fetishizes participation.Elizabeth Ellcessor reveals the ways in which ability, culture, and technology are all entangled in questions of accessibility. Timely and sophisticated, Ellcessors book is a major advance in media studies and disability studies, and will also be of great interest to scholars in policy. -- Jonathan Sterne,author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format

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Book Synopsis2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award WinnerAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition, affect, and publishing, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Disability alters, generates, and dismantles method. Crip authorship takes place within and beyond the commodity version of authorship, in books, on social media, and in creative works that will never be published. The Trade ReviewCrip Authorship moves directly into the most urgent debates in critical disability studies, focusing on questions of methodology, race, queerness, cross-disability solidarity, and what it means to make or publish crip work. An extraordinary array of authors, both emerging and well-known, contribute original pieces and provoke thrilling new conversations. This remarkable volume will be of interest to readers across many fields and methodological orientations. Crip Authorship argues for, and also demonstrates, the powerful interdisciplinarity of crip scholarship and its potential to work toward greater justice. * Margaret Price, author of Crip Spacetime *This is a fantastic, urgent, singular, and kaleidoscopic book. Crip Authorship uses disability to explode the very idea of method: this is a book about research, but also about writing, thinking, publishing, and inhabiting. Crip Authorship is essential reading for any scholar who does anything with disability in their work; it is even more essential reading for those who don’t. This is a field-changing collection. * Jonathan Sterne, author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment *This field-changing collection is theoretically sophisticated and politically charged! This book crucially shows how disability is not only an identity formation, but also a method to revise how we write, critique, and enact change. The collection most importantly engages disability as it relates to race, the non-West, colonialism, sexuality, gender identity, and class, offering an exciting and much needed model for our field. This text redefines how we theorize, imagine, and produce disability. * Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego *This illuminating collection of essays focuses on the variety and value of crip creation, methodology, writing and research. With contributions from Mel Y Chen, Jaipreet Virdi, Emily Lim Rogers, Ellen Samuels and many more, it is urgent and original. -- Karla Strand * Ms. Magazine *

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Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, post-traumatic stress, and questions about the beginning and end of life.Each of the 60 essays in Keywords for Disability Studies focuses on a distinct critical concept, including ethics, medicalization, performance, reproduction, identity, and stigma, among others. Although the essays recognize that disability is often used as an umbrella term, the contributors to the volume avoid treating individual disabilities as keywords, and instead interrogate concepts that encompass different components of the social and bodily experience of disability. The essays apTrade ReviewAccessible and versatile,Keywords for Disability Studiescapaciously welcomes both newcomers and veterans of the field. * Symploke *No mere inventory,Keywords for Disability Studiesis an invaluable conceptual mapping of the field. With entries that combine succinctness with clarity, the volume as a whole effectively synthesizes ongoing debates and evolving ideas to make this a most welcome addition to the field of disability studies. -- Ato Quayson,author of Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of RepresentationThe entries are a brief but comprehensive take on some of the concepts found within disability studies. Coherent, direct, and informative,Keywords for Disability Studieswill undoubtedly generate questions and provide valuable resources for students and scholars alike in nearly any discipline for the foreseeable future. * Medical Humanities *Keywords for Disability Studies is an important primer featuring over 60 short essays on key concepts within an interdisciplinary field, destined for syllabi and bookshelves both within and outside of academia. * Cultural Studies *Keywords for Disability Studiesdeftly demonstrates how disability may act as a conjuncture (like race) that opens cultural studies to new and crucial means of making sense of economic and cultural contexts, and deploying that knowledge politically. Its interdisciplinarity, broad-ranging perspectives, and deeply enacted connection to material politics ought to make this an exciting and illuminating read for those interested in cultural studies, disability, or both. In this intersection, there is the potential for the best kind of acculturation, a mutually transformative and progressive growth. * Cultural Studies *Table of ContentsContents 1 Disability Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin 5 2 Ability Fiona Kumari Campbell 12 3 Access Bess Williamson 14 4 Accident Jill C. Anderson 17 5 Accommodation Elizabeth F. Emens 18 6 Activism Denise M. Nepveux 21 7 Aesthetics Michael Davidson 26 8 Affect Lisa Cartwright 30 9 Aging Kathleen Woodward 33 10 Blindness D. A. Caeton 34 11 Citizenship Allison Carey 37 12 Cognition Ralph James Savarese 40 13 Communication Carol Padden 43 14 Crip Victoria Ann Lewis 46 15 Deafness Douglas C. Baynton 48 16 Deformity Helen Deutsch 52 17 Dependency Eva Feder Kittay 54 18 Design Christina Cogdell 59 19 Diversity Lennard J. Davis 61 20 Education Margaret Price 64 21 Embodiment Abby Wilkerson 67 22 Ethics Rebecca Garden 70 23 Eugenics Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 74 24 Euthanasia Harold Braswell 79 25 Family Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp 81 26 Fat Kathleen LeBesco 84 27 Freak Leonard Cassuto 85 28 Gender Kim Q. Hall 89 29 Genetics David Wasserman 92 30 History Susan Burch and Kim E. Nielsen 95

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Book SynopsisHow reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility. While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for some bodies than for others. A YouTube video without closed captions or a social network site that is incompatible with a screen reader can restrict the access of users who are hard of hearing or visually impaired. Often, people with disabilities require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of aid to make digital media accessibleuseablefor them.Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibilitythe processes by which media is made usable by people with particular needsand argues for the necessity of conceptualizing access in a way that will enable greater particiTrade ReviewElizabeth Ellcessor’s inspiring book Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation lies at the intersection of disability, technology, culture, and bodies, and it raises new questions in these intersecting research fields. It is a timely and welcome work that fills in the research gap between disability studies and media studies. -- International Journal of CommunicationEllcessor calls for cultural collaboration that does not exclude disability culture or attempt to erase disability culture in the name of universal design. * Choice *Restricted Accesstransforms our understanding of what 'access' means in an age when so much writing on new media fetishizes participation.Elizabeth Ellcessor reveals the ways in which ability, culture, and technology are all entangled in questions of accessibility. Timely and sophisticated, Ellcessors book is a major advance in media studies and disability studies, and will also be of great interest to scholars in policy. -- Jonathan Sterne,author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format

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Book SynopsisContends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or crip times. Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and cultureactivism, blogs, art, photography, literature, and performanceprovide important and generative sites for both contesting austerity politics and imagining alternatives. The book engages various cultural flashpoints, including the spectacle surrounding the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; the murder trial of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius; the photography of Brazilian artist Livia Radwanski which documents the gentrification of Colonia Roma in Mexico City; the defiance of Chilean students demanding a Trade ReviewA powerful, inventive, galvanizing book, explicitly and insistently theorizing the centrality of disability to the politics of austerity, without ever resorting to polemic, yet never satisfied with mere critique. Crip Times is a necessary book for our times. * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability *Although neoliberalism constantly tells us There Is No Alternative, McRuer meticulously documents and analyzes those who, as the late Manning Marable urged, celebrate our passionate discontent with the way things are. * American Literary History *Crip Times demonstrates the hallmarks of Robert McRuers scholarship, highlighting his formidable skills as a writer and theorist. Weve needed a text like Crip Times to unpack the cultural logics of neoliberalism as it attends to disability and austerity, and McRuer does so with an approach that transcends disciplines and national contexts. -- Alison Kafer,author of Feminist, Queer, CripA brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics. McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with which to move forward. -- Jack Halberstam,author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

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Book SynopsisDuring the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the US for the first time. This book places the growth of the Deaf community at the heart of the story of deaf education and explains how the unexpected emergence of Deafness provoked the pedagogical battles that dominated the field of deaf education in the nineteenth century.Trade Review[A] useful addition to the still-developing history of the nation's evolving deaf community. * The Journal of American History *R.A.R. Edwards' Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture is a brilliant study of the emergence of a deaf community in nineteenth-century America . . . . Beyond a more nuanced account of the emergence of the American Deaf community, this monograph is ultimately a revisionist history of the ongoing conflict over pedagogical methods in deaf education. Building on the established historiography produced by a small cadre of deaf historians, Edwards represents a new generation of scholarship in the field, offering a revisionist thesis of the ideas originally presented by Van Cleve and Crouch over twenty years ago. Words Made Flesh is a fine addition to New York University press's history of disability series. * Common-Place *[This book is] provocative, detailed, and a welcome examination of the emergence of a signing deaf culture. * American Historical Review *In this gracefully written book, Edwards offers both a fascinating narrative and a provocative, revisionist thesis.Scholars and general readers interested in the Deaf community and American cultural history will find it a rewarding read. -- Douglas Baynton,University of IowaWords Made Fleshis a stimulating, beautifully written, and thoroughly engaging book. -- James W. Trent * American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: A Yale Man and a Deaf Man Open a School and Create a World 2 Manual Education: An American Beginning 3 Learning to Be Deaf: Lessons from the Residential School 4 The Deaf Way: Living a Deaf Life 5 Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: The First American Oralists 6 Languages of Signs: Methodical versus Natural 7 The Fight over the Clarke School: Manualists and Oralists Confront Deafness Conclusion Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, while wealthy CEOs grow even wealthier as a direct result. As recently as 2016, the United States Congress enacted bipartisan legislation which continued to allow workers with disabilities to legally be paid far lower than the federal minimum wage. Drawing on ongoing federal Department of Justice lawsuits, the horrifying story of Henry''s Turkey Farm in Iowa, and more, Crandell shows the history of the policies that have led to these unjust outcomes, examines who benefits from this legislation, and asks important questions about the rise of a disability industrial complex. Exposing this complexwhich is rooted in profit, lobbying, and playing on the emotions of workers'' parents and families, as well as the pTable of ContentsPart I 1. The Stage is Set for Broken Promises 2. From Evil Intentions to Unintended Consequences 3. Subminimum Wages and Disability Rights 4. The Floor is Gone and Modern Lobbying Arrives Part II 5. The Olmstead Supreme Court Decision and Freedom Fighters 6. Early Adopters and Tearing Down Assumptions 7. Federal Policy as Catalyst, Barrier, and Duality 8. The Nightmare in Atalissa Part III 9. Boycotting Goodwill 10. Oregon, Rhode Island, and the Promise of a Way Forward 11. A Legislative Fix Was In 12. Ohio and the Future of Subminimum Wages

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart I 1. The Stage is Set for Broken Promises 2. From Evil Intentions to Unintended Consequences 3. Subminimum Wages and Disability Rights 4. The Floor is Gone and Modern Lobbying Arrives Part II 5. The Olmstead Supreme Court Decision and Freedom Fighters 6. Early Adopters and Tearing Down Assumptions 7. Federal Policy as Catalyst, Barrier, and Duality 8. The Nightmare in Atalissa Part III 9. Boycotting Goodwill 10. Oregon, Rhode Island, and the Promise of a Way Forward 11. A Legislative Fix Was In 12. Ohio and the Future of Subminimum Wages

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together leading international socio-legal and medico-legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice. Traditionally, decisions for persons found to lack capacity are made by others, generally without reference to the person, and this applies especially to those with cognitive and psycho-social disabilities. This book examines the difficulties in establishing effective and deliverable supported decision-making, concluding that approaches to capacity need to be informed by a grounded understanding of how it operates in ‘real life’ contexts. The book focuses on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which recognises the equal right to legal capacity of people with disabilities and requires States Parties to provide support for the exercise of this right. However, 10 years after the CRPD came into force, the shift to legal frameworks for supported decision-making remains at best only partial. With 16 chapters written by contributors from the UK, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey, the collection takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach. Many of the contributors have been directly involved in law reform processes in their home jurisdictions, and thus can combine both academic expertise and practical, grounded awareness of the challenges of legal change.Trade ReviewNecessary reading for those taking stock of the first wave of scholarship and activism, and working how best to move forward to enhancing the right to the enjoyment of legal capacity on an equal basis. -- Alex Ruck Keene * International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law & Mental Capacity Law and Policy Blog *Table of Contents1. Situating the Right to Enjoy Legal Capacity Rosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK), Mary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland and Ezgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK) PART I CHARTING THE CONCEPTUAL CONTOURS OF CAPACITY LAW 2. Support Relationships in Law: Framing, Fictions and the Responsive State Mary Donnelly (University College Cork, Ireland) 3. The Problem of Influence: Autonomy, Legal Capacity and the Risk of Theoretical Incoherence Amanda Keeling (University of Leeds, UK) 4. The Significance of Strong Evaluation and Narrativity in Supporting Capacity Camillia Kong (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 5. Functional Capacity Assessments by Healthcare Professionals: Problems and Mitigating Strategies Shaun O’Keeffe (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) 6. Charting a Path to Non-coercive Mental Healthcare: The Rhizomatic Nature of Universal Legal Capacity and the Support Paradigm Suzanne Doyle Guilloud (University of Bristol, UK) PART II REFORMING CAPACITY LAW: MAKING, SHAPING AND INTERPRETING LEGAL FRAMEWORKS 7. The (Contested) Role of the Academy in Activist Movements for Legal Capacity Reform: A Personal Reflection Eilionór Flynn (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland) 8. Enabling Supported Decision-Making in India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: Learnings from a Low-Resource Country Setting Soumitra Pathare (ILS Law College, India) and Arjun Kapoor (ILS Law College, India) 9. Reflections on the Reform of Spanish Civil Legislation on Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities Patricia Cuenca Gómez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) 10. Adapting or Discarding the Status Quo? Supporting the Exercise of Legal Capacity in Scottish Law and Practice Jill Stavert (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) 11. Performing Disability Rights: State Reporting and Turkey's (Non)Engagement with the CRPD Ezgi Tascioglu (Keele University, UK) PART III SUPPORTING LEGAL CAPACITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE: BALANCING EMPOWERMENT AND SAFEGUARDS 12. Autonomy of a Person under Guardianship: Self-Determination in the Theory and Practice of Guardianship Law in Finland Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) 13. Autonomy, Capacity and Vulnerability: Making Decisions on Social Services for Persons with Dementia in Sweden Titti Mattsson (Lund University, Sweden) 14. Law’s Legitimacy and Social Work Support in Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Abuse Jaime Lindsey (University of Essex, UK) 15. Putting the Pieces Together: Article 12, “Safeguarding” and the Right to Legal Capacity Margaret Isabel Hall (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 16. Supporting Everyday Legal Capacity: Navigating the Complexities of Putting Rights into Practice Rosie Harding (University of Birmingham, UK)

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Book SynopsisPersons with disabilities report high levels of harassment worldwide, often based on intersectional characteristics such as race, gender and age. However, while #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter have highlighted ongoing experiences of sexual and racial harassment, disability harassment has received little attention. This book focuses on legal measures to combat disability harassment at work. It sets disability harassment in its international context, including its human rights framework, and confronts the lack of empirical information by evaluating the Irish legal framework in practice. It explores the capacity of the law to address intersectional harassment, particularly that faced by women with disabilities, and outlines the barriers to effective legal solutions.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Human Rights Framework 3. Barriers to Effective National Implementation 4. Disability Harassment in Ireland 5. The Irish Legal Framework in Practice 6. Meeting the Global Challenge: Lessons From Experience 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from an international team of experts, this collection provides a much-needed international, comparative approach to mental capacity law. The book focuses particularly on exploring substantive commonalities and divergences in normative orientation and practical application embedded in different legal frameworks. It draws together contributions from eleven different jurisdictions across Europe, Asia and the UK and explores what productive or unproductive values and practices currently exist. By providing a detailed comparison of how legal and ethical commitments to persons with disabilities are framed in capacity law across different national systems, the book highlights the values and practices that could lead to changes that better respect persons with disabilities in mental capacity regimes.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Values, Participation, and Mental Capacity Laws in International Comparative Perspective – Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn, Alex Ruck Keene 2. Mental Capacity Law in England and Wales: A Value-Laden Jurisdiction – Rebecca Stickler 3. Mental Capacity Regimes Approach to Values and Participation in Proceedings Involving Individuals With Impaired Decision-Making Capacity in Scotland – Jill Stavert 4. The Fusion Approach to Mental Capacity Law in Northern Ireland: Possibilities and Challenges – Gavin Davidson, Martin Daly, Moira Harper, Danielle McIlroy and Lorna Montgomery 5. Judging Values in a Time of Transition: An Irish Perspective – Mary Donnelly 6. US Laws Relating to Decision-Making on Behalf of P – Stephen Latham 7. Indigenous Peoples With Disabilities and Canadian Mental Capacity Law – Ruby Dhand 8. Capacity, Participation and Values in Australian Guardianship Laws – Cameron Stewart 9. Navigating Values in Aotearoa New Zealand – Kris Gledhill 10. Values and Participation of Individuals Without Mental Capacity in Hong Kong – Daisy Cheung 11. Asian Values and Confucianism: How P’s Ability To Participate in Court Proceedings in Singapore Is Influenced by P’s Cultural Milieu – Yue-En Chong 12. Respect for the Will and Preferences of People With Mental Disorders in German Law – Tanje Henking and Matthé Scholten 13. The Place of Values and P’s Participation in Mental Capacity Law: Themes, Synergies, and Tensions – Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn, Alex Ruck Keene

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Book SynopsisThe French version of this book was the winner of the 2022 Grand Prix de la Protection Sociale. Over the years many disability-related rights have been legally recognized, but how has this changed the everyday lives of people with disabilities? Drawing on biographical interviews collected from individuals with mobility or visual impairments in France, this book analyses the reception of disability policies in the fields of education, employment, social rights and accessibility. It examines to what extent these policies contribute to the realization of associated rights among disabled people. The book demonstrates that the rights associated with disability suffer from major implementation flaws, while shedding light on the very active role of disabled citizens in the realization of their rights.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Right to Education: A Battle Still to Be Won 3. Rights at Work 4. Autonomy under Supervision 5. Freedom of Movement: A ‘Sweet Dream’? 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and race Are food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with food allergies and not others? Allergic Intimacies is a groundbreaking critical engagement with food allergies in their cultural representations, advocacy, law, and stories about personal experiences from a disability studies perspective. Author Michael Gill questions the predominantly individualized medical approaches to food allergies, pointing out that these approaches are particularly problematic where allergy testing and treatments are expensive, inconsistent, and inaccessible for many people of color. This thought-provoking book explores the multiple meanings of food allergies and eating in the United States, demonstrating how much more is at stake than we realize, at a critical time when food allergies are on the rise: An estimated 32 million Americans, including one in thirteen children, have food allergies. Diagnoses of food allergies in children have increased by 50 percent since 1997. Yet as the author makes clear, the whiteness of the food allergy community and single-identity disability theory is inherently limiting and insufficient to address the complex choices that those with food allergies make. Gill argues that racism and ableism create unique precarity for disabled people of color that food allergic communities are only beginning to address. There is a huge disparity in access to testing and treatment, with African American and Latinx children having higher risk of adverse outcomes than white children, including more rates of anaphylaxis. Food allergy professionals have a responsibility to move beyond individualized approaches to more robust coalitional efforts grounded in disability and racial justice to undo these patterns of exclusion. Allergic Intimacies celebrates the various creative ways food allergic communities are challenging historical and current practice of exclusion, while identifying the depth of work that still needs to be done to shift focus from a white allergic experience toward a more representative understanding of the racial, ethnic, religious, and economic diversity of those in the United States. Gill’s book is a discerning and vital exploration of the key debates about risks, dangers, safety, representations, and political concerns affecting the lives of individuals with food allergies.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction: Why Food Allergies? | 1 1 Relational Food Allergy, Immunity, and Environments | 25 2 Nut-Free Squirrels and Princesses with Peanut Allergies: Food Allergies, Identity, and Children’s Books | 43 3 Allergic Reactions through Fluid Exchanges | 56 4 You Ate What? Intentionality, Accidents, and Death | 77 Conclusion: Pandemics and the Need for Coalitions | 97 Acknowledgments | 101 Notes | 103 Index | 123

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Book SynopsisThe first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and race Are food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with food allergies and not others? Allergic Intimacies is a groundbreaking critical engagement with food allergies in their cultural representations, advocacy, law, and stories about personal experiences from a disability studies perspective. Author Michael Gill questions the predominantly individualized medical approaches to food allergies, pointing out that these approaches are particularly problematic where allergy testing and treatments are expensive, inconsistent, and inaccessible for many people of color. This thought-provoking book explores the multiple meanings of food allergies and eating in the United States, demonstrating how much more is at stake than we realize, at a critical time when food allergies are on the rise: An estimated 32 million Americans, including one in thirteen children, have food allergies. Diagnoses of food allergies in children have increased by 50 percent since 1997. Yet as the author makes clear, the whiteness of the food allergy community and single-identity disability theory is inherently limiting and insufficient to address the complex choices that those with food allergies make. Gill argues that racism and ableism create unique precarity for disabled people of color that food allergic communities are only beginning to address. There is a huge disparity in access to testing and treatment, with African American and Latinx children having higher risk of adverse outcomes than white children, including more rates of anaphylaxis. Food allergy professionals have a responsibility to move beyond individualized approaches to more robust coalitional efforts grounded in disability and racial justice to undo these patterns of exclusion. Allergic Intimacies celebrates the various creative ways food allergic communities are challenging historical and current practice of exclusion, while identifying the depth of work that still needs to be done to shift focus from a white allergic experience toward a more representative understanding of the racial, ethnic, religious, and economic diversity of those in the United States. Gill’s book is a discerning and vital exploration of the key debates about risks, dangers, safety, representations, and political concerns affecting the lives of individuals with food allergies.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction: Why Food Allergies? | 1 1 Relational Food Allergy, Immunity, and Environments | 25 2 Nut-Free Squirrels and Princesses with Peanut Allergies: Food Allergies, Identity, and Children’s Books | 43 3 Allergic Reactions through Fluid Exchanges | 56 4 You Ate What? Intentionality, Accidents, and Death | 77 Conclusion: Pandemics and the Need for Coalitions | 97 Acknowledgments | 101 Notes | 103 Index | 123

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