[Mason] became a brilliant scholar but then encountered formidable obstacles set up not only by 'able-ism' but also by sexism. Her triumph over both isms makes her memoir more than just readable.
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Booklist Mason's concise, clear, sensitive, and beautifully written memoir resonates with anyone trying to understand another human life.
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Choice Highly recommended for all women's studies and disability studies collections.
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Library Journal A compelling and evocative story of a woman's life–her pleasures, work, passions, and losses. Mason's focus on strength and healing tell a fresh disability story.
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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, author of Extra-ordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Culture and Literature Life Prints brings home the point that scholars in the relatively young field of disability studies stress: like race, class, and gender, disability configures our experiences, identities, and cultures in fundamental ways. Absent a disability analysis, Mason's experiences sound very much like those of, say, Adrienne Rich, who has written of her years as a 'faculty wife, ' and her awakening into feminism and out of institutionalized domesticity and motherhood.
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Women's Review of Books