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The Ugly Laws
2009
Overview
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 ugly
laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws,
situating the varied legislation in its historical context and
exploring in detail what the laws meant. Illustrating how the laws
join the history of the disabled and the poor, Schweik not only
gives the reader a deeper understanding of the ugly laws and the
cities where they were generated, she locates the laws at a crucial
intersection of evolving and unstable concepts of race, nation,
sex, class, and gender. Moreover, she explores the history of
resistance to the ordinances, using the often harrowing life
stories of those most affected by their passage. Moving to the
laws' more recent history, Schweik analyzes the shifting cultural
memory of the ugly laws, examining how they have been used-and
misused-by academics, activists, artists, lawyers, and
legislators.
Publisher
NYU Press,New York University Press
Subject
/ Beggars
/ Beggars -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History
/ Beggars -- United States -- History
/ Discrimination against people with disabilities
/ Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
/ HISTORY
/ People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History
ISBN
9780814740576, 081474057X, 9780814783610, 0814783619, 9780814708873, 0814708870
