Table Of ContentDisability and Equality Law
The Library of Essays on Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
Series Editor: Suzanne B. Goldberg
Titles in the Series:
Disability and Equality Law
Elizabeth F Emens and Michael Ashley Stein
Sexuality and Equality Law
Suzanne B. Goldberg
Gender and Equality Law
Julie Goldscheid
Race and Equality Law
Angela P Harris
Age and Equality Law
Michael Selmi
Religion and Equality Law
Nelson Tebbe
Disability and Equality Law
Edited by
Elizabeth F. Emens
Columbia University Law School, USA
Michael Ashley Stein
William and Mary Law School and Harvard Law School, USA
First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing
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Contents
Acknowledgements VII
Series Preface XI
Introduction X111
PART I DEFINITION AND MODELS
Mike Oliver (1996), 'Defining Impairment and Disability: Issues at Stake', in
Colin Barnes and GeofMercer (eds), Exploring the Divide, Leeds: Disability Press,
pp. 39-54. 3
2 David Wasserman (2001), 'Philosophical Issues in the Definition and Social
Response to Disability', in Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman and
Michael Bury (eds), Handbook ofD isability Studies, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,
pp. 219-51. 19
3 Simi Linton (2007), 'What I Learned', in My Body Politic, Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, pp. 108-20. 53
4 Tom Shakespeare (2006), 'Critiquing the Social Model', in Disability Rights and
Wrongs, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 29-53. 67
5 Eli Clare (2009), 'The Mountain', in Exile and Pride, Cambridge, MA: South End
Press, pp. 1-13. 95
6 Mark Kelman (2000), 'Does Disability Status Matter?', in Leslie P. Francis,
S.J. Quinney and Anita Silvers (eds), Americans with Disabilities: Exploring
Implications oft he Lawfor Individuals and Institutions, London: Routledge,
pp. 91-101. 109
PART II THEORIES OF EQUALITY AND INCLUSION
7 Sandra Fredman (2005), 'Disability Equality: A Challenge to the Existing Anti
Discrimination Paradigm?', in Anna Lawson and Caroline Gooding (eds),
Disability Rights in Europe: From Theory to Practice, Oxford: Hart, pp. 199-218. 123
8 Adrienne Asch (2001), 'Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability:
Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity', Ohio State Law Journal, 62,
pp. 391-423. 143
9 Ruth Colker (2009), 'Anti-Subordination Above All: A Disability Perspective', in
When is Separate Unequal? A Disability Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 10-3 8. 177
10 Anita Silvers (2001), 'Agency and Disability', in Lawrence C. Becker and
Charlotte B. Becker (eds), Encyclopedia ofE thics, 2nd edn, London: Routledge,
pp. 36-40. 207
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11 Susan Stefan (200 1) , 'The Landscape of Discrimination Today', in Unequal Rights:
Discrimination against People with Mental Disabilities and the Americans with
Disabilities Act, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 3-36. 213
12 Michael L. Perlin (2011), 'Mental Disability Law in a Comparative Law Context',
in International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law: When the Silenced are
Heard, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 43-57. 247
13 Kristen Harmon (20 I 0), 'Deaf Matters: Compulsory Hearing and Ability Trouble',
in Susan Burch and Alison Kafer (eds), Deaf and Disability Studies: Inter-
disciplinary Perspectives, Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, pp. 31-47. 273
PART III ACCOMMODATION AND ACCESS
14 Lisa Waddington (2008), 'When it is Reasonable for Europeans to be Confused:
Understanding when a Disability Accommodation is "Reasonable" from a
Comparative Perspective', Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 29,
pp.317-40. 293
15 Anna Lawson (2010), 'Challenging Disabling Barriers to Information and
Communication Technology in the Information Society: A United Kingdom
Perspective', in Lisa Waddington and Gerard Quinn (eds), European Yearbook
ofD isability Law, Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 131-48. 317
16 Christine J olls (200 1) , 'Antidiscrimination and Accommodation', Harvard Law
Review, 115, pp. 643-99. 335
17 MarkS. Stein (2006), 'Utilitarianism and Distribution to the Disabled', in
Distributive Justice and Disability: Utilitarianism against Egalitarianism, New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 33-54. 393
18 Tobin Siebers (2008), 'Disability Studies and the Future ofldentity Politics', in
Disability Theory, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 70-95. 419
PART IV LIFE AND DEATH
19 Samuel R. Bagenstos (2009), 'Disability, Life, Death, and Choice', in Law and
the Contradictions of the Disability Rights Movement, New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, pp. 95-115. 449
20 Deborah Kent (2000), 'Somewhere a Mockingbird', in Erik Parens and Adrienne
Asch (eds), Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights, Washington, DC: Georgetown
University Press, pp. 57-63. 481
21 Allison C. Carey (2009), 'Reimagining Retardation, Transforming Community',
in On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in
Twentieth-Century America, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 183-212. 489
22 Tom Shakespeare (1996), 'Introduction', in Tom Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells
and Dominic Davies (eds), The Sexual Politics ofD isability: Untold Desires,
London: Cassell Academic, pp. 1-15. 523
23 Michael Berube (2006), 'Was I Ever Wrong', in Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on
Humans and the Humanities, Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina Press,
pp. 328-31. 541
Name Index 545
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to thank all of the contributors for allowing us to use their thoughtful
and important work to compose this volume. We also want to thank Suzanne Goldberg for
the invitation and for inspiration, as well as helpful comments, and Timothy Gray, Alexa
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pp. 31-47.
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