Disability as a Social Construct (eBook)

Legislative Roots

Claire H. Liachowitz (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2010
192 Seiten
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-8122-0262-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Wounded soldiers, injured workers, handicapped adults, and physically impaired children have all been affected by legislation that reduces their opportunities to live a functional life. In Disability as a Social Construct, Claire Liachowitz contends that disability is not merely a result of a handicap but can be imposed by society through devaluation and segregation of people who deviate from physical norms. She analyzes pertinent American legislation, primarily from 1770 to 1920, to provide a new perspective on the mechanisms that translate physical defects into social and civil inferiority.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Human Rights • Law • Political Science • Public Policy
• ISBN-10: 0-8122-0262-7 / 0812202627
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-0262-5 / 9780812202625