About Canada: disability rights (About Canada series)
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Déficiences
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
Through an examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications, and health care, this survey finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Argues that disability is not about “faulty”… bodies that need to be fixed but about the institutional, cultural, and attitudinal reactions to certain kinds of bodies, contending that neoliberal ideas of independence and individualism are at the heart of the continuing discrimination against “disabled” people. Achieving disability rights is possible through universal design, disability supports, social and economic assistance, and a sense of belonging. 2012. (About Canada series)