'What Happened to You?': Writing by Disabled Women

ISBN-13: 9781565840256 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 223 str.

Saundra Pollock Sturdevant; Brenda Stolzfus; Lois Keith

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Lois Keith was thirty-five, with a successful career, two daughters, and a partner of many years, when she was hit by a car and paralyzed from the waist down. Over the next few years, she discovered both a community of disabled people and a paucity of literature and public understanding about their lives.In response, she began soliciting the manuscripts that make up What Happened to You? , a candid, powerful, and often hilarious collection of fiction, essays, and poetry by women with disabilities. Coming from a wide range of backgrounds and ages, impairments and experiences, the thirty-six women included in the book write on everything from access to abuse, equality to equanimity, in what may well be the definitive volume on living with a disability.At the same time, this anthology tells a universal story about dealing with pain and illness, about overcoming prejudice and unjust legislation, and about the importance, regardless of an individual s fortitude, of creating a community.
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