Synopses & Reviews
Essay Anthology. What this book attempts to capture and convey is simply the experience of being a person with a disability in America today. From the introduction: It is hard to unravel the tangled, knotted ball of the disability experience - isolation and differentness versus a common identity; images of weakness, vulnerability, enforced childishness... This book attempts to weave a rough but strong cloth from these gnarled strands, to give the feel of the disability experience.
Synopsis
Our groundbreaking anthology, the best of The Disability Rag, was named an "outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America".
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Preface. Why we do what we do / Cass Irvin -- Coming together. Aphasia / Edward L. Hooper -- Seeking the disabled community / Edward L. Hooper -- Like squabbling cubs / Mary Jane Owen -- Malcolm teaches us, too / Marta Russell -- Disability culture rap / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Image and images. Survivor / S.L. Rosen -- Thoughts on thinking differently / Tanis Doe -- Boutonnieres / John R. Woodward -- Toward a theory of radical disability photography / Anne Finger -- Giving it back / Cris Matthews -- Questioning continuum / Carol J. Gill --