Format:
Book
Title:
Make them go away : Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the case against disability rights / Mary Johnson.
Author:
Johnson, Mary, 1948-
Call Number:
342.73087 Johnson
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
Louisville : Advocado Press, c2003.
Description:
xvii, 296 p. ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
People with disabilities -- Government policy -- United States.
Other Title:
Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the case against disability rights
Contents:
Clint Eastwood and Christopher Reeve -- Passing the Americans with Disabilities Act -- The complaint against disability rights -- Whiners, victims, and the truly disabled -- The right's stuff -- Down the wrong road : the courts take up the case against disability rights -- Special -- The role of 'the disabled' in society -- The 'silence of the good people' -- The tenth year of 'a bad law' -- The hearing -- Correcting the record -- Discrimination and the formation of a minority -- Disabled 'R' Us -- Creating the accessible society -- The disability rights vision : beyond 'marketplace morality' -- The voice of the Supremes -- A strange silence.
ISBN:
9780972118903 (pbk.)
097211890X (pbk.)