Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights (Corporealities, Discourses of Disability)

backlash against the ada: reinterpreting disability rights (corporealities, discourses of disability)

Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights (Corporealities, Discourses of Disability)

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For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, disability activists and disability rights lawyers were speaking openly of a backlash against the ADA.

Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights (Corporealities, Discourses of Disability),Linda Hamilton Krieger,University of Michigan Press,0472068253,Constitutional,Disability,General,Handicapped,History,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Legal status, laws, etc,Legal status, laws, etc.,Multicultural Nonfiction,People with disabilities,Social Science,United States,Constitutional & administrative law,POLITICS & GOVERNMENT,Social Science / Handicapped,Sociology, Social Studies,USA

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