Disability and equality law / edited by Elizabeth F. Emens, Michael Ashley Stein. - Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Pub., 2013. - xxvi, 550 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - The library of essays on equality and anti-discrimination law . - The library of essays on equality and anti-discrimination law .

Includes bibliographical references (pages vii-ix) and index.

Defining impairment and disability : issues at stake / Mike Oliver -- Philosophical issues in the definition and response to disability / David Wasserman -- What I learned / Simi Linton -- Critiquing the social model / Tom Shakespeare -- The mountain / Eli Clare -- Does disability status matter? / Mark Kelman -- Disability equality: a challenge to the existing anti-discrimination paradigm / Sandra Fredman -- Critical race theory, feminism, and disability: reflections on social justice and personal identity / Adrienne Asch -- Anti-subordination above all : a disability perspective / Ruth Colker -- Agency and disability / Anita Silvers -- The landscape of discrimination today / Susan Stefan -- Mental disability law in a comparative law context / Michael L. Perlin -- Deaf matters : compulsory hearing and ability trouble / Kristen Harmon -- When it is reasonable for Europeans to be confused : understanding when a disability accommodation is reasonable from a comparative perspective / Lisa B. Waddington. Challenging disabling barriers to information and communication technology in the information society : a United Kingdom perspective / Anna Lawson -- Antidiscrimination and accommodation / Christine Jolls -- Utilitarianism and distribution to the disabled / Mark Stein -- Disability studies and the future of identity politics / Tobin Siebers -- Disability, life, death, and choice / Samuel R. Bagenstos -- Somewhere a mockingbird / Deborah Kent -- Reimagining retardation, transforming community / Allison C. Carey -- Introduction, in the Sexual politics of disability : untold desires / Tom Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells & Dominic Davis -- Was I ever wrong, / Michael Berube.

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Discrimination against people with disabilities--Law and legislation.