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Such a Pretty Girl - A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride (Hardcover)
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Such a Pretty Girl - A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride (Hardcover)
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A memoir by a disability rights activist 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 in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a
cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to
her rebellion and her activism in the disability rights movement.
LaSpina's personal growth parallels the movement's political
development-from coming together, organizing, and fighting against
exclusion from public and social life, to the forging of a common
identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the
embracing of disability pride. While unique, the author's journey
is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the
journey to find one's place in an ableist world-a world not made
for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative
terms. La Spina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability.
Through the telling of her life's story, without editorializing,
she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a
cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story
exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical
system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a
society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic
rights. Written as continuous narrative and in a subtle and
intimate voice, Such a Pretty Girl is a memoir as captivating as a
novel. It is one of the few disability memoirs to focus on
activism, and one of the first by an immigrant.
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