{"product_id":"unruly-bodies-life-writing-by-women-with-disabilities-9780807858301","title":"Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities","description":"The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, \u003ci\u003eUnruly Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining the analyses of disability and feminist theories, Susannah Mintz discusses the work of eight American autobiographers: Nancy Mairs, Lucy Grealy, Georgina Kleege, Connie Panzarino, Eli Clare, Anne Finger, Denise Sherer Jacobson, and May Sarton. Mintz shows that by refusing inspirational rhetoric or triumph-over-adversity narrative patterns, these authors insist on their disabilities as a core--but not diminishing--aspect of identity. They offer candid portrayals of shame and painful medical procedures, struggles for the right to work or to parent, the inventive joys of disabled sex, the support and the hostility of family, and the losses and rewards of aging. Mintz demonstrates how these unconventional stories challenge feminist idealizations of independence and self-control and expand the parameters of what counts as a life worthy of both narration and political activism. \u003ci\u003eUnruly Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e also suggests that atypical life stories can redefine the relation between embodiment and identity generally. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susannah B. Mintz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.44w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807858301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMintz, Susannah B.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Susannah B. Mintz is associate professor of English at Skidmore College. She is author of \u003ci\u003eThreshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40759757439091,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":63.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ecfc63a7-610d-4683-8e4d-fba01b7ea42f.jpg?v=1678974130","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/unruly-bodies-life-writing-by-women-with-disabilities-9780807858301","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}