Prejudice

Disability and equity at work

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"Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be done to achieve global employment equality for individuals with disabilities. In OECD countries, the employment rate of persons with disabilities was just over 40%, compared to 75% f…

Disability and equity at work

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Hundreds of millions of people with disabilities around the world are out of work or underemployed. This book documents what can be done to improve the employment situation of people with disabilities globally.

Saving face: disfigurement and the politics of appearance

by Talley, Heather Laine

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"Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of…

A dentist and a gentleman: gender and the rise of dentistry in Ontario

by Adams, Tracey Lynn

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"In A Dentist and a Gentleman, Tracey Adams examines the historical development of dentistry as a profession in Ontario from the late nineteenth century to the end of the First World War to explore the significance of gender, particularly masculinity, in the formation of profess…

A dentist and a gentleman: gender and the rise of dentistry in Ontario

by Adams, Tracey Lynn

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At one time considered a trade, dentistry gradually evolved and attained professional status, structured in such a way as to recruit middle-class white men; by definition, a professional was a gentleman. A unique and fascinating social history.

Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment

by Charlton, James I.

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James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or devel…

Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment

by Charlton, James I.

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"A study of the global oppression of people with disabilities and the international movement that has recently emerged to resist it ... A theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism."--Jacket

Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment

by Charlton, James I.

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"A study of the global oppression of people with disabilities and the international movement that has recently emerged to resist it ... A theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism."--Jacket.

Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment

by Charlton, James I.

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James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or devel…

The cybernetics of prejudices in the practice of psychotherapy

by Ray, Wendel A., Cecchin, Gianfranco, Lane, Gerry

fromSystematic thinking and practice series

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In this book, the authors identify the therapist's values and beliefs which they describe as prejudices, they then identify the equivalent prejudices held by the family, and finally, they trace the ways a prejudice from one side affects the other and is, in turn, affected by the…

"The use of incarceration in the United States has increased five-fold since 1973. Twenty-nine percent of black males born today can expect to be imprisoned in their lifetime." "Race to Incarcerate tells the chilling story of this unprecedented explosion in the prison population…

Race to incarcerate

by Mauer, Marc, Sentencing Project (U.S.)

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"The use of incarceration in the United States has increased five-fold since 1973. Twenty-nine percent of black males born today can expect to be imprisoned in their lifetime." "Race to Incarcerate tells the chilling story of this unprecedented explosion in the prison population…