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ISBN-10: 1558612769
ISBN-13: 9781558612761
Publisher: Feminist Press
Publish Date: 12/01/2001
Dimensions: 11.68" L, 4.56" W, 0.71" H

Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery

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Overview

After contracting polio, six-year-old Mary Grimley became the nation’s first poster child, photographed with President Roosevelt at his Warm Springs rehabilitation center. But a close look at photos reveals something other than the cheerful invalid that the abled expect: mouth closed in a frown, eyes defiant and proud, this bold child is less than impressed with the label of poor crippled girl.

Mary Mason’s life story records her triumph over the limits society sets for the disabled and her later discovery of another barrier–the sexism of friends, family, and even herself as she strives to become a respected scholar. Declared, concise, clear, sensitive and beautifully written, by Library Journal, Mason’s struggle is one of courage as she contends with the forces that seek to define and limit her.

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[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.
Booklist

Mason's concise, clear, sensitive, and beautifully written memoir resonates with anyone trying to understand another human life.
Choice

Highly recommended for all women's studies and disability studies collections.
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.
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.
Women's Review of Books

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ISBN-10: 1558612769
ISBN-13: 9781558612761
Publisher: Feminist Press
Publish Date: 12/01/2001
Dimensions: 11.68" L, 4.56" W, 0.71" H
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