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: | The history of disability |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of disability series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (446 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Producing the unsightly
- Getting ugly
- The law in context
- The law in language
- Dissimulations
- Gender, sexuality, and the ugly law
- Immigration, ethnicity, and the ugly law
- Race, segregation, and the ugly law
- The right to the city
- Rehabilitating the unsightly
- All about ugly laws (for ten cents).