Disability, Divers-Ability and Legal Change

Download or read book Disability, Divers-Ability and Legal Change written by Melinda Jones and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1999-03-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ventures into the uncharted terrain where law and disability intersect. Drawing on developments in the emerging field of disability studies and on a new-found human rights perspective on disability, the contributions traverse topics as wide-ranging as citizenship, feminism, eugenics, euthanasia, and sexual abuse of people with disabilities, and analyze disability law at both a domestic and international level. Informed by the social model of disability, this work brings together academics and disability activists from Australia, Europe and North America. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, with contributors coming from sociology, education, law, geography, philosophy, and cultural studies.