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The Lay View Of What "Disability" Means Must Give Way To What Congress Says It Means: Infertility As A "Disability" Under The Americans With Disabilities Act, Deborah K. Dallmann Oct 1996

The Lay View Of What "Disability" Means Must Give Way To What Congress Says It Means: Infertility As A "Disability" Under The Americans With Disabilities Act, Deborah K. Dallmann

William & Mary Law Review

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Rights, Remembrance And The Reconciliation Of Difference, David Engel, Frank W. Munger Jan 1996

Rights, Remembrance And The Reconciliation Of Difference, David Engel, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

Rights in American society present a paradox-critics increasingly assert that proliferation of rights is undermining Americans' sense of community, yet scholars continue to document Americans' reluctance to assert formal legal rights. We explore the meaning of rights in American society by describing the intersection between the evolving civil rights of a previously excluded minority, culminating in the, and the personal histories of two individuals who might potentially invoke or benefit from such rights. Tracing the life stories of "Sara Lane" and 'Jill Golding" from childhood through adolescence to adulthood and employment, we relate the everyday relevance or irrelevance of law …