The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan M. Schweik

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public

The History of Disability

Susan M. Schweik

443 pages • first pub 2009 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history reference sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disabilityIn the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offer...

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