This is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and...
People with disabilities--Social conditions
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Auteur:LaSpina, NadinaSommaire: - Auteur:Troeung, Y-DangSommaire:
Utilizing the concept of aphasia, this book demonstrates how Cambodian refugee narratives resist state violence and take head-on hegemonic discourses across popular and scholarly spaces that prop up colonial, imperial, capitalist,...
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Auteur:Malhotra, Ravi, Isitt, BenjaminSommaire:Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists explore how disabled people have been portrayed...
- Auteur:Wong, AliceSommaire:
Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories...
- Auteur:Stienstra, DeborahSommaire:
In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Stienstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses to these experiences.
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Auteur:Winberg, Mona, Boyer, J. PatrickSommaire:Solitary Courage is the story of a mother's tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter's astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens...
