Such a Pretty Girl : A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: LaSpina, Nadina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New Village Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
LaSpina, Nadina.
LaSpina, Nadina > Health.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
People with disabilities.
Health.
LAW / Disability.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
civil rights.
Droits de l'homme.
Femmes.
Poliomyelite.
Personnes handicapees.
Personnes handicapees > Conditions sociales.
Personnes handicapees > Biographies.
Civil Rights
Women
Poliomyelitis
Disabled Persons
Civil rights.
Women.
Poliomyelitis.
People with disabilities > Biography.
United States
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiography
Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Che peccato: what a shame. Riposto
  • The best hospital
  • Blood sisters
  • Blythedale
  • The real world
  • Better off
  • A place where I never want to go back
  • Part II: Fighting back. We can fight for our rights
  • Just one of the graduate students
  • The handicapped teacher
  • Amputation
  • You do what you have to do
  • Not a real cheery picture
  • Part III: Love and activism. Love and activism on two continents
  • Free our people
  • No need to settle
  • The handsome new guy
  • Dead of winter
  • Danny
  • Crips are beautiful
  • Part IV: Come sono contenta: how happy I am. Vado via contenta: I'm going away happy
  • Come sono contenta: how happy I am
  • Thank you, life
  • I promise we'll have fun
  • Riposto.

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