The ugly laws [electronic resource] : disability in public / Susan M. Schweik.
Series: History of disability seriesPublication details: New York : New York University, c2009.Description: xii, 431 p. : illISBN:- 9780814740576 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 081474057X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
- 346.7301/3 22
- KF480 .S29 2009eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-404) and index.
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).
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.