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Running Time: 07:50 hrsNarrator: Maggie PettetPublisher:Center for Equitable Library Access, 2017
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- Author: Kuttai, HeatherDate:Created2013Summary:
Combining ethnology and memoir, describes the issues surrounding childbirth and motherhood for disabled women. The author, a paraplegic, tells about her own hunt for medical advice before getting pregnant - and then about the normal births of her two children - before widening the conversation to other disabled women and sympathetic members of the medical community. Includes strong language.
Contents:- Girl, interrupted
- Thinking and writing about myself
- In the family way
- It's time!
- Inaccessibility
- Music and joyful embodied experiences
- Becoming a living text.
Subject(s): Athletes with disabilities | Paraplegics | Parents with disabilities | Pregnancy in women with disabilities | Women with disabilitiesOriginal Publisher: Toronto, ON, ©2010, CNIBLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 1552666298, 9781552666296Collection(s)/Series: Disability Perspectives Collection
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