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Learning from Ordinary Lives, Changing Social Attitudes
From: About Canada: Disability Rights
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The last chapter, Learning From Ordinary Lives, Changing Social Attitudes, articulates the work of changing attitudes and perceptions of living with disability that will make the realization of disability rights possible. Themes include a focus on our shared humanness, those who are innovating and pioneering more inclusive ways of being, and of difference as both a teacher and connective force in society.
Contributors
Deborah Stienstra
Deborah Stienstra holds the Jarislowsky Chair in Families and Work, is a professor of political science and the director of the Live Work Well Research Centre at the University of Guelph. She held the Royal Bank Research Chair in Disability Studies from 2000-2003 at the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies. She has worked with national organizations including the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, FAFIA, and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Her recent research interests include the effects of changes in public services on people with disabilities, women’s experiences as a result of economic restructuring, intersections between disability, race/ethnicity and Aboriginality, access and inclusion in telecommunications policy, and experiences of people with disabilities in end of life and cancer care. She is co-editor of Making Equality: History of Advocacy and Persons with Disabilities in Canada and the lead author of Women with Disabilities: Accessing Trade.
