Venus on wheels : two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America / / Gelya Frank
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Frank Gelya <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Venus on wheels : two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America / / Gelya Frank
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.4/3/092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Women with disabilities - United States - Social conditions |
| Women with disabilities - United States | |
| People with disabilities - United States - Psychology | |
| Sociology of disability - United States | |
| Discrimination against people with disabilities - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. My Introduction to Diane; 2. The Crisis of Representation: Why It Is Time for Cultural Biography; 3. "There's Nothing about the Disabled Woman and the Disabled Culture"-Diane DeVries, 1976; 4. Disability in American Culture: Transformations in Diane's Life and Life Story; 5. How Typical or Representative (and of What) Is the Life of Diane DeVries?; 6. "The Biography in the Shadow" Meets "Venus on Wheels": From Empathy to the Mirror Phenomenon; 7. I-Witnessing Diane's "I": Time, Ethics, and Epistemology |
| 8. The Women in Diane's Body: Narrative Ambiguity in a Material World9. Conclusion: Truly Your Diane; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Venus on wheels |
| ISBN: | 0-520-92235-2 |
| 1-59734-976-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828685803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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