In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Stienstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses to these experiences.

This study investigates how trade in health services and assistive devices affected women with disabilities and how women entrepreneurs with disabilities are able to access trade
services and information.

Written by and for Canadians with disabilities and their communities, Making Equality: History of Advocacy and Persons with Disabilities in Canada contests attitudes toward disabled people and their participation in Canadian society. It presents as formal knowledge disabled peoples' stories, observations and analyses in an effort to bridge the sizeable knowledge gap faced by educators and professionals.