The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public

by Susan Schweik

Book Overview

The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disability

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814783619
• ISBN13: 9780814783610
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"