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Disability as a social construct : legislative roots /
Wounded soldiers, injured workers, handicapped adults, and physically impaired children have all been affected by legislation that reduces their opportunities to live a functional life. In Disability as a Social Construct, Claire Liachowitz contends that disability is not merely a result of a handic...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1988.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Wounded soldiers, injured workers, handicapped adults, and physically impaired children have all been affected by legislation that reduces their opportunities to live a functional life. In Disability as a Social Construct, Claire Liachowitz contends that disability is not merely a result of a handicap but can be imposed by society through devaluation and segregation of people who deviate from physical norms. She analyzes pertinent American legislation, primarily from 1770 to 1920, to provide a new perspective on the mechanisms that translate physical defects into social and civil inferiority. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr College. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 139 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-131) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585116334 9780585116334 9780812202625 0812202627 0812281349 9780812281347 |