Rogers Smith: Foreword
Preface
1: Introduction
Part I: What is a Disability?
2: Joan Aleshire: Eye of the Beholder
3 Defining Moments: (Dis)ability, Individuality, and Normalcy:
Part II: Working
4: Achim Nowak: Disclosures
5: C.G.K Atkins: A Chair Unseen
6: Stephen Kuusito: Life without Mozart
7: Revealing Workplaces
Part III: Local and State Governmental Services
8: Leonard Kriegel: Beloved Enemies: A Cripple in the Crippled
City
9: John Hockenberry: Public Transit
10: Taxis, Trains, and Sidewalks: Navigating the ADA's Mass Transit
Problem
11: Joan Tollifson: The Perils of Getting a Driver's License
12: Providing Public Accommodations: Testing, Testing, and
Retesting the Disabled
13: Jean Stewart: Sovereignty
14: Ruth O'Brien: Cheaters and Copy Cats
15: Territorial Disputes: Federalism, the Fourteenth Amendment, and
Disability
Part IV: Public Accommodations of Privately Owned Businesses
16: Shawn Casey O'Brien: Whack!
17: Private Places and Public Spaces
18: Afterword
Ruth O'Brien is Professor of Government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Chair of the Political Science M.A./PH.D Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is author of Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy.
"A fascinating series of personal accounts a rich and multifaceted
overview of disability rights law, and of the experience of living
with a disability in the contemporary United States. Voices from
the Edge should be of particular interest to students in law,
public policy, political science, and disability studies, all of
whom would benefit from this mulitfaceted approach to disability
and discrimination."--The Law and Politics Book Review
"A fascinating series of personal accounts, a rich and multifaceted
overview of disability rights law, and of the experience of living
with a disability in the contemporary United States. Voices from
the Edge should be of particular interest to students in law,
public policy, political science, and disability studies, all of
whom would benefit from this mulitfaceted approach to disability
and discrimination."--The Law and Politics Book Review
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