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Paperback The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public Book

ISBN: 0814783619

ISBN13: 9780814783610

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public

(Part of the The History of Disability Series Series)

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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...

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