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Author Weber, Mark C

Title Disability Harassment
Published New York : NYU Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Series Critical America Series
Critical America.
Contents Preface; 1 Harassment Narratives; 2 Harassment, Exclusion, and Equality; 3 Comparisons to Race and Sex Harassment; 4 A New Approach to Legal Claims for Harassment in the Workplace and Other Settings; 5 Liability for Harassment in the Public Schools; 6 New Approaches to Liability for Harassmentin the Public Schools; 7 Common-Law Remedies for Disability Harassment; 8 Constitutional Objections to Antiharassment Policies; 9 An Agenda for Legal and Social Change; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal barriers. The book considers courts' approaches to the problem of disability harassment, particularly the application of an analogy to race and sex harassment and the development of legal remedies and policy reforms under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). While litigation under the ADA ha
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Subject Students with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Harassment -- Law and legislation -- United States
Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Law and legislation -- United States
Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Law and legislation
Harassment -- Law and legislation
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814795071
0814795072