With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology

Book Overview

Includes fifty-five essays by women with physical, emotional, and learning disabilities, relating their experiences with their disabilities and society, and their feelings about themselves. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939416069
• ISBN13: 9780939416066
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Cleis Pr
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

With the power of each word...

What a shame such a wonderful book doesn't even warrant a single review from all those supposed intellectual readers who claim to "understand" disability and what it means for millions of women all over the world. I found this book in a thrift shop for a dollar here in the UK and what a buy it was is all I can say! This is an anthology for disabled women by disabled women but it is also for YOU abled bodied folk who think YOU KNOW what it is like to be in a body where you are physically powerless or have a mind that is considered "different" and therefore not normal. This book will tell you what it is really like, it spares no punches and takes no prisoners. There are poems, life stories, experiences, angst, humour, sorrow, irony, anger, dreams fulfilled or not as the case may be, no two voices in this book are the same. This book is not a sentimental journey down the "what might have been" lane it's a book about real people living real lives. A gem of a book that sadly has been overlooked by many. Readers all I can say is "you don't what you're missing!"