Venus on wheels : two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America / Gelya Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Gelya, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women with disabilities--United States--Social conditions.

Women with disabilities.

Women with disabilities--United States--Biography.

People with disabilities--United States--Psychology.

People with disabilities.

Sociology of disability--United States.

Sociology of disability.

Discrimination against people with disabilities--United States.

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

DeVries, Diane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-266) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92235-2

1-59734-976-3

OCLC:

475930133