Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body

Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body /

Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that a...

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Main Author: Taussig, Rebekah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
Edition:First HarperCollins paperback edition.
Subjects:
Taussig, Rebekah.
Paraplegics > United States > Biography.
Women with disabilities > United States > Biography.
Disabilities.
Paraplegics.
Women with disabilities.
United States.
Autobiography.
Autobiographies (literary genre)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • What's the problem?
  • An ordinary unimaginable love story
  • More than a defect
  • The real citizens of life
  • The price of your body
  • Feminist pool party
  • The complications of kindness
  • What I mean when I talk about "accessibility".

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