About Canada : Disability Rights
About Canada : Disability Rights
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Author(s): Stienstra, Deborah
ISBN No.: 9781552664636
Pages: 160
Year: 202408
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 46.35
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Utilizing the stories and voices of people with disabilities, Deborah Stienstra argues that disability is not about "faulty" bodies that need to be fixed, but about the institutional, cultural and attitudinal reactions to certain kinds of bodies, and that neoliberal ideas of independence and individualism are at the heart of the continuing discrimination against "disabled" people. Stienstra contends that achieving disability rights is possible, but not through efforts to "fix" certain kinds of bodies. Rather it can be achieved through universal design, disability supports, social and economic supports and belonging - in short, through foundational social transformation of Canadian society.


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