My Body Politic : A Memoir /

"My Body Politic begins in the midst of the turmoil over Vietnam and concludes with a meditation on the U.S. involvement in the current war in Iraq and the war's wounded veterans. While a memoir of the author's gradual political awakening, My Body Politic is filled with adventure, cel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linton, Simi, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Linton, Simi, > 1947-
Women with disabilities.
Traffic accident victims.
Paraplegics.
Political activists.
Femmes.
Paraplegie.
Personnes handicapees.
Victimes d'accidents de la route > États-Unis > Biographies.
Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Paraplegiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes handicapees > États-Unis > Biographies.
Women
Paraplegia
Disabled Persons
Women.
Paraplegia.
People with disabilities.
Traffic accident victims > United States > Biography.
Political activists > United States > Biography.
Paraplegics > United States > Biography.
Women with disabilities > United States > Biography.
United States.
United States
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
Biography
Autobiography
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Conscripts to the cavalry
  • Brave new world
  • Coming out in the West
  • A special education
  • Going away
  • Pleasures and freedoms
  • The design of my life
  • I sing my body electric
  • What I learned
  • Weddings and marriages
  • Citizens in good standing
  • Lessons from children
  • Rufus
  • Odyssey of a sure-footed man
  • The cripple girl & the blind boy go to the museum
  • Our body politics.

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