Making rights a reality? Disability rights activists and legal mobilization

Making Rights a Reality? Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-293

  Vanhala, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511976506     Document Type: Book

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