The Ugly Laws : : Disability in Public / / Susan M. Schweik.
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these “ugly laws” have become a sort of shorthand for oppression i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The History of Disability ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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