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Susan Schweik

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My book The Ugly Laws has just come out from NYU Press (May 2009). In it you can find everything you ever wanted to know about the U.S. laws prohibiting people who were "diseased, maimed, deformed so as to be unsightly or disgusting objects" from "exposing themselves to public view." You can also find information about the most famous disabled person you never heard of. ...more

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	The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public 3.88 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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