Rights, remembrance, and the reconciliation of difference.
The writers examine the meanings of rights in U.S. society by describing the intersection between the evolving civil rights of a previously excluded minority, culminating in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the personal histories of two individuals who might potentially invoke or ben...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 7 - 54 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1996
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| Sumario: | The writers examine the meanings of rights in U.S. society by describing the intersection between the evolving civil rights of a previously excluded minority, culminating in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the personal histories of two individuals who might potentially invoke or benefit from such rights. They trace the life stores of two individuals from childhood through adolescence to adulthood and employment and relate the everyday relevance or irrelevance of law to important parts of the reconstructed past—the development of self-concept and of one's place with regard to the social mainstream. They analyze life stories in order to critique familiar assumptions concerning the perceived conflict between rights and social relationships and concerning the mobilization of law. |
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