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Unruly bodies : life writing by women with disabilities / Susannah B. Mintz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mintz, Susannah B., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women with disabilities--United States--Biography.
- Women with disabilities.
- Autobiography--Women authors.
- Autobiography.
- Women's studies--Biographical methods.
- Women's studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908822-5-7
- 979-88-9313-290-8
- 1-4696-0616-X
- 0-8078-7763-8
- OCLC:
- 476190279
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