The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (The History of Disability, 3)
Explores the history of U.S. ordinances that restricted people with visible disabilities from public spaces, situating these laws within their social and legal contexts.
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The Ugly Laws examines municipal ordinances enacted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that prohibited people with visible disabilities from appearing in public spaces.
The book situates these statutes within broader social, legal, and cultural contexts of the period.
It draws on archival records to trace how such laws were created, enforced, and eventually challenged.
The study highlights connections between disability policy and other forms of social regulation at the time.
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