The ugly laws : disability in public

The ugly laws disability in public

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schweik, Susan M. 1956- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University c2009.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:History of disability series.
Materias:
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Beggars > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History.
Discrimination against people with disabilities > Law and legislation > United States > History.
People with disabilities > United States > History.
Beggars > United States > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009810660206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Producing the unsightly
  • Getting ugly
  • The law in context
  • The law in language
  • Dissimulations
  • Gender, sexuality, and the ugly law
  • Immigration, ethnicity, and the ugly law
  • Race, segregation, and the ugly law
  • The right to the city
  • Rehabilitating the unsightly
  • All about ugly laws (for ten cents).

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