LSJ/CHID 434
Winter 2009
Assignment #6
Assignment due January 21, 2009
I. From on-line reading pages 13-28, Human Rights and Disability (answer 2)
1. What is the “social construct” of disability? And what do the authors articulate as
the “premises” of the model?
2. How do the authors define Equality?
3. The authors discuss civil, political, and socio-economic sets of rights. How are
these defined?
4. What do the authors mean by the statement “Human rights as a ‘visibility’ project
in the context of disability”?
II. From Quinn, Disability Rights: An American Invention
5. What is “remarkable” about American disability rights laws from Professor
Quinn’s perspective as a European?
