[PDF.39hr] The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (The History of Disability)

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (The History of Disability)

[PDF.je69] The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (The History of Disability)

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 | #267276 in Books |  NYU Press |  2010-08-30 |  2010-08-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.12 x6.00l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 443 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Could not finish|By D. McRae|There is some good research here, but I could not finish this book (I rarely abandon one). Dry & repetitive|8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| An interesting, but excessively wordy book|By sirwilliam|The Ugly Laws is a very thorough and interesting historical account of how the disa|From Publishers Weekly|In 1881, the Chicago City Code read, "Any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed... shall not... expose himself to public view." These "ugly laws" began in San Francisco in 1867, then spread through the U.S. and

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 in disability studies, law, and the arts.

In this watershed study of the ugly laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws, situating the varied...

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