02568nam 2200613 a 450 991078192340332120230721032316.01-4696-0616-X0-8078-7763-8(CKB)1000000000487681(EBL)361354(OCoLC)476190279(SSID)ssj0000265519(PQKBManifestationID)11193572(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265519(PQKBWorkID)10295758(PQKB)11076352(MiAaPQ)EBC361354(OCoLC)966845900(MdBmJHUP)muse48614(Au-PeEL)EBL361354(CaPaEBR)ebr10273469(OCoLC)233572796(EXLCZ)99100000000048768120070202d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrUnruly bodies[electronic resource] life writing by women with disabilities /Susannah B. MintzChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5830-7 0-8078-3133-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.Auto/body/ography : the fragmented texts of Nancy Mairs -- Tyranny of the visual : Lucy Grealy & Georgina Kleege -- Sexual selves, community allegiance : Connie Panzarino & Eli Clare -- Alternative motherhoods : Denise Sherer Jacobson & Anne Finger -- A brief history of aging : the journals of May Sarton.The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. Writers discussed include Nancy Mairs, Lucy Grealy, Georgina Kleege, Connie Panzarino, Eli Clare, Anne Finger, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and May Sarton.Women with disabilitiesUnited StatesBiographyAutobiographyWomen authorsWomen's studiesBiographical methodsWomen with disabilitiesAutobiographyWomen authors.Women's studiesBiographical methods.362.4092/273Mintz Susannah B.1965-1516075MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781923403321Unruly bodies3752304UNINA