The ugly laws
Subtitle: disability in public
By: Susan M. Schweik.
Series: The history of disability
Publisher: New York University
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814740576
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Producing the unsight; title: Getting ugly; title: The law in context; title: The law in language; title: Dissimulations; title: Gender, sexuality, and the ugly law; title: Immigration, ethnicity, and the ugly law; title: Race, segregation, and the ugly law; title: The right to the city; title: Rehabilitating the unsightly; title: All about ugly laws, for ten cents.