Venus on Wheels Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America

Name: Venus on Wheels Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America
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ISBN: 9780520217164

ISBN-10: 0520217160

ISBN-13: 9780520217164

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gelya Frank

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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. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. By addressing the dynamics of power in ethnographic representation,…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 299
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments



My Introduction to Diane



The Crisis of Representation: Why It Is Time for Cultural Biography



"There's Nothing about the Disabled Woman and the Disabled Culture"--Diane DeVries, 1976



Disability in American Culture: Transformations in Diane's Life and Life Story



How Typical or Representative (and of What) Is the Life of Diane DeVries?



"The Biography in the Shadow" Meets "Venus on Wheels": From Empathy to the Mirror Phenomenon



l-Witnessing Diane's "l": Time, Ethics, and Epistemology



The Women in Diane's Body: Narrative Ambiguity in a Material World



Conclusion: Truly Your Diane


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