Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: Toward a Critical Theory of Dis-Citizenship 1
6. Setting the Context
7. Disability Policy Making: Evaluating the Evidence Base 25
8. Conceptual Frameworks
9. Does Theory Matter? Exploring the Nexus between Disability, Human Rights, and Public Policy 47
10. Justice as Fairness in Accommodating Workers with Disabilities and Critical Theory: The Limitations of a Rawlsian Framework for Empowering People with Disabilities in Canada 70
11. Multicultural Citizenship: The Case of the Disabled 87
12. Ghosts in the Machine: Civil Rights Laws and the Hybrid “Invisible Other” 106
13. Policy Analyses
14. Working at the Margins: Disabled People and the Growth of Precarious Employment 129
15. A Life without Living: Challenging Medical and Economic Reductionism in Home Support Policy for People with Disabilities 151
16. Autism as Public Policy 177
17. Post-Secondary Education and Disabled Students: Mining a Level Playing Field or Playing in a Minefield? 195
18. Legal Interrogations
19. Now You See Her, Now You Don’t: How Law Shapes Disabled Women’s Experience of Exposure, Surveillance, and Assessment in the Clinical Encounter 223
20. Damage Quantification in Tort and Pre-Existing Conditions: Arguments for a Reconceptualization 248
21. Beyond Compassion and Sympathy to Respect and Equality: Gendered Disability and Equality Rights Law 267
22. Infertility and the Parameters of Discrimination Discourse 285
23. Appendix 305
24. Contributors 318
25. Index 321
26. Law and Society 337