UID:
almafu_9959231588702883
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-92235-2
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1-59734-976-3
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. My Introduction to Diane; 2. The Crisis of Representation: Why It Is Time for Cultural Biography; 3. "There's Nothing about the Disabled Woman and the Disabled Culture"-Diane DeVries, 1976; 4. Disability in American Culture: Transformations in Diane's Life and Life Story; 5. How Typical or Representative (and of What) Is the Life of Diane DeVries?; 6. "The Biography in the Shadow" Meets "Venus on Wheels": From Empathy to the Mirror Phenomenon; 7. I-Witnessing Diane's "I": Time, Ethics, and Epistemology
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8. The Women in Diane's Body: Narrative Ambiguity in a Material World9. Conclusion: Truly Your Diane; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-21715-2
Language:
English
