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Working Against Odds Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives
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Working Against Odds Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives Paperback - 2004

by Mary Grimley Mason


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In this ethnographic study of disabled women's relationship with work, Mary Grimley Mason describes the viewpoints, struggles, strategies, and triumphs of eighteen women with a range of physical and sensory impairments. She relates how each came to terms with her disability and achieved self-identity and self-sufficiency in an able-bodied world.

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  • Title Working Against Odds Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives
  • Author Mary Grimley Mason
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 192 pages
  • Publisher Northeastern University Press, Boston
  • Date August 24, 2004
  • ISBN 9781555536305

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MARY GRIMLEY MASON is Professor Emerita of English and former Director of the Women's Studies Program at Emmanuel College. She is the author of Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery. She lives in the Boston area. ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Literature and Culture and coeditor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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