The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan Schweik

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public

Susan Schweik

431 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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