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  • About Canada: Disability Rights, 2nd ed.

    by Deborah Stienstra ...
    Series Book 15 - About Canada
    Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some bodies. It requires deep changes in the attitudes, cultural images and policies that make people with disabilities invisible, set them aside, undermine or reject their contributions and value, and justifies their ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • About Canada: Disability Rights

    by Deborah Stienstra ...
    Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gender Politics in Global Governance

    by Erin K. Baines, Francine D’Amico, Amy J. Higer, Catherine Hoskyns, Jutta Joachim, Stephanie Hallock Johnson, Alice M. Miller, Anne Sisson Runyan, Judith Hicks Stiehm, Deborah Stienstra, Irene Tinker, Emek Uçarer, Lois A. West ...
    From the grassroots to the global, women's movements worldwide are taking on new arenas, new goals and strategies, and in some cases a whole new vocabulary. International organizations, nonstate actors, regimes and norms, and a host of globalizing forces offer women and their representatives new opportunities and obstacles. This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

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    About Canada: Disability Rights

    2nd Edition

    by Deborah Stienstra ...
    Narrated by Nathalie Toriel ...
    Series series About Canada

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some bodies. It requires deep changes in the attitudes, cultural images and policies that make people with disabilities invisible, set them aside, undermine or reject their contributions and value, and justifies their ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Our Own Master Race

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