Backlash Against the ADA: Reinterpreting Disability Rights

by Linda Hamilton Krieger

Book Overview

For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472068253
• ISBN13: 9780472068258
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"