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Larry
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> The Ugly Laws
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> Disability in Public
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> By Susan M. Schweik, University of California, Berkeley
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> "Schweik draws on a deep index of resources, from legal proceedings to
out-of-print
> books, to tell the story of individuals long lost to history."- Publishers
Weekly
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> "Schweik uses unsightly beggar' laws in American cities in the late
nineteenth and early
> twentieth centuries to explore fundamental questions about disability,
race, gender, and
> class in new and often startling ways. The book is beautifully written,
delightfully thought-
> provoking, and deeply researched. It is quite honestly the best work of
scholarship I have
> read in a long time."- Douglas C. Baynton, author of Forbidden Signs
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> "Schweik delivers a compelling and insightful examination of disability
norms, municipal
> law, and American culture. . . . She gives voice to the fascinating
stories of the unsightly,
> the alienated, and the excluded. A valuable contribution for anyone
interested in disability
> theory, poverty law and policy, and social history."- Paul Steven Miller,
Director,
> Disability Studies Program, University of Washington
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> 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.
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> May 2009 448pp £22.99 HB: 9780814740576
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