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Disability as a Social Construct: Legislative Roots
Claire H. Liachowitz
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 366.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812281347
SKU
V9780812281347
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About Claire H. Liachowitz
By Claire H. Liachowitz
Reviews for Disability as a Social Construct: Legislative Roots
"Improves our understanding of how legislation that attempts to address the physical problems of handicap may aggravate these problems by reinforcing social attitudes that consider the handicapped as inferior, defective, and deviant."
Contemporary Sociology
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