Unruly bodies [[electronic resource] ] : life writing by women with disabilities / / Susannah B. Mintz
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| Autore: |
Mintz Susannah B. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Unruly bodies [[electronic resource] ] : life writing by women with disabilities / / Susannah B. Mintz
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.4092/273 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women with disabilities - United States |
| Autobiography - Women authors | |
| Women's studies - Biographical methods | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unruly bodies |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0616-X |
| 0-8078-7763-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781923403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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