The Ugly Laws : Disability in Public.

The Ugly Laws : Disability in Public.

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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 op...

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Main Author: Schweik, Susan M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
Series:History of disability series.
Subjects:
Beggars > United States > History.
People with disabilities > United States > History.
Discrimination against people with disabilities > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Beggars > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
HISTORY > Social History.
Beggars
Beggars > Legal status, laws, etc.
Discrimination against people with disabilities > Law and legislation
People with disabilities
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: THE EMERGENCE OF THE UGLY LAWS; 1 Producing the Unsightly; 2 Getting Ugly; 3 The Law in Context; 4 The Law in Language; 5 Dissimulations; II: AT THE UNSIGHTLY INTERSECTION; 6 Gender, Sexuality, and the Ugly Law; 7 Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Ugly Law; 8 Race, Segregation, and the Ugly Law; III: THE END OF THE UGLY LAWS; 9 The Right to the City; 10 Rehabilitating the Unsightly; 11 All about Ugly Laws (for Ten Cents); Conclusion; Appendix: The Ugly Laws; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S.
  • TU; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.

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