Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights.

Linda Hamilton Krieger, (Editor).

ISBN 10: 0472068253 / ISBN 13: 9780472068258

Published by University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2003

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First Edition Thus (2003), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only a tiny dent in several pages mid-text at the bottom edge of the text block (probably a tiny pebble or such lodged there at one time). else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases to the covers. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single, minor cosmetic flaw. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9 x 6 x 1.1 inches). 408 pages. Language: English. Weight: 20.5 ounces. Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability Series. University Press Paperback. First Edition Thus (2003), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights.
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472068253
• ISBN 13: 9780472068258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Law & Constitutional History

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Synopsis

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.

What happened, why did it happen, and what can we learn from the patterns of public, media, and judicial response to the ADA that emerged in the 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists.

Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz.

Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history.

Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.

About the Author

Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.