Such a pretty girl: a story of struggle, empowerment, and disability pride / Nadina LaSpina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaSpina, Nadina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LaSpina, Nadina-Health.

People with disabilities-Biography.

People with disabilities-Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2019.

Summary:

A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story--from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals.

Contents:

Cover

SUCH A PRETTY GIRL

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

PART I: Che Peccato: What a Shame

1. Riposto

2. The Best Hospital

3. Blood Sisters

4. Blythedale

5. The Real World

6. Better Off

7. A Place Where I Never Want to Go Back

PART II: Fighting Back

8. We Can Fight for Our Rights

9. Just One of the Graduate Students

10. The Handicapped Teacher

11. Amputation

12. You Do What You Have to Do

13. Not a Real Cheery Picture

PART III: Love and Activism

14. Love and Activism on Two Continents

15. Free Our People

16. No Need to Settle

17. The Handsome New Guy

18. Dead of Winter

19. Danny

20. Crips Are Beautiful

PART IV: Come Sono Contenta: How Happy I Am

21. Vado Via Contento: I'm Going Away Happy

22. Come Sono Contenta: How Happy I Am

23. Thank You, Life

24. I Promise We'll Have Fun

25. Riposto

Epilogue

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61332-105-8

OCLC:

1273306899