Author: Tylia L. Flores
Publisher: Tylia L. Flores
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Tylia L. Flores is a published author, disability activist, who tells the story of high school sweethearts Cyrus Davis and Tamkia Smith Martinez in her new book Passionate Love Affairs of a disabled woman as Cyrus builds them their dream home after meeting in high school and falling in love. Despite Tamkia's cerebral palsy diagnosis, they still think they have it all together and that nothing can separate them from their love until Cyrus' random thought episode in church, which led him to get a life-changing diagnosis, causing everyone's life to turn upside down, transforming this beautiful love story into a tale of betrayal and a lack of trust. Since Cyrus is no longer the same person Tamkia has known and loved for so long, she begins to question the future of their relationship. Additionally, it leads her to look for love in the wrong places... As illustrated by the anonymous author, “You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.”
Passionate Love affairs of a disabled woman
Author: Tylia L. Flores
Publisher: Tylia L. Flores
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Tylia L. Flores is a published author, disability activist, who tells the story of high school sweethearts Cyrus Davis and Tamkia Smith Martinez in her new book Passionate Love Affairs of a disabled woman as Cyrus builds them their dream home after meeting in high school and falling in love. Despite Tamkia's cerebral palsy diagnosis, they still think they have it all together and that nothing can separate them from their love until Cyrus' random thought episode in church, which led him to get a life-changing diagnosis, causing everyone's life to turn upside down, transforming this beautiful love story into a tale of betrayal and a lack of trust. Since Cyrus is no longer the same person Tamkia has known and loved for so long, she begins to question the future of their relationship. Additionally, it leads her to look for love in the wrong places... As illustrated by the anonymous author, “You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.”
Publisher: Tylia L. Flores
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Tylia L. Flores is a published author, disability activist, who tells the story of high school sweethearts Cyrus Davis and Tamkia Smith Martinez in her new book Passionate Love Affairs of a disabled woman as Cyrus builds them their dream home after meeting in high school and falling in love. Despite Tamkia's cerebral palsy diagnosis, they still think they have it all together and that nothing can separate them from their love until Cyrus' random thought episode in church, which led him to get a life-changing diagnosis, causing everyone's life to turn upside down, transforming this beautiful love story into a tale of betrayal and a lack of trust. Since Cyrus is no longer the same person Tamkia has known and loved for so long, she begins to question the future of their relationship. Additionally, it leads her to look for love in the wrong places... As illustrated by the anonymous author, “You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they’re not always the same thing.”
As seen through the eyes of a disabled woman Cerebral Palsy: A Beauty to be discovered
Author: Tylia Flores
Publisher: Tylia Flores
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Bringing you the story of Tylia L. Flores, a multiple-time published author and disability activist, Cerebral Palsy a beauty to be discovered tells how she conquered despite the many challenges and obstacles her condition brought to her. With a condition that society does not understand, she brings a whole new perspective to self-love.
Publisher: Tylia Flores
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Bringing you the story of Tylia L. Flores, a multiple-time published author and disability activist, Cerebral Palsy a beauty to be discovered tells how she conquered despite the many challenges and obstacles her condition brought to her. With a condition that society does not understand, she brings a whole new perspective to self-love.
Such a Pretty Girl
Author: Nadina LaSpina
Publisher: New Village Press
ISBN: 161332104X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the disability rights movement. LaSpina’s personal growth parallels the movement’s political development—from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life, to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride. While unique, the author's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world—a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative terms. La Spina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability. Through the telling of her life’s story, without editorializing, she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic rights. Written as continuous narrative and in a subtle and intimate voice, Such a Pretty Girl is a memoir as captivating as a novel. It is one of the few disability memoirs to focus on activism, and one of the first by an immigrant.
Publisher: New Village Press
ISBN: 161332104X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A memoir by a disability rights activist Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the disability rights movement. LaSpina’s personal growth parallels the movement’s political development—from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life, to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride. While unique, the author's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world—a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative terms. La Spina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability. Through the telling of her life’s story, without editorializing, she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic rights. Written as continuous narrative and in a subtle and intimate voice, Such a Pretty Girl is a memoir as captivating as a novel. It is one of the few disability memoirs to focus on activism, and one of the first by an immigrant.
Political and Social Issues in British Women’s Fiction, 1928–1968
Author: E. Maslen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave feminism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels, Maslen analyses how writers chose to represent such issues as pacifism and the threat of fascism, war, race and class, and gender, exploring in the process how the writers' priorities affect their decisions on how to write.
Dorothea Lange
Author: Linda Gordon
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333905X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Introduction : "A camera is a tool for learning how to see ...".
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039333905X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Introduction : "A camera is a tool for learning how to see ...".
The Power of Disability
Author: Al Etmanski
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1523087579
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world has in store for us.” —Michael J. Fox This book reveals that people with disabilities are the invisible force that has shaped history. They have been instrumental in the growth of freedom and birth of democracy. They have produced heavenly music and exquisite works of art. They have unveiled the scientific secrets of the universe. They are among our most popular comedians, poets, and storytellers. And at 1.2 billion, they are also the largest minority group in the world. Al Etmanski offers ten lessons we can all learn from people with disabilities, illustrated with short, funny, inspiring, and thought-provoking stories of one hundred individuals from twenty countries. Some are familiar, like Michael J. Fox, Greta Thunberg, Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, and Temple Grandin. Others deserve to be, like Evelyn Glennie, a virtuoso percussionist who is deaf—her mission is to teach the world to listen to improve communication and social cohesion. Or Aaron Philip, who has revolutionized the runway as the first disabled, trans woman of color to become a professional model. The time has come to recognize people with disabilities for who they really are: authoritative sources on creativity, love, sexuality, resistance, dealing with adversity, and living a good life.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1523087579
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world has in store for us.” —Michael J. Fox This book reveals that people with disabilities are the invisible force that has shaped history. They have been instrumental in the growth of freedom and birth of democracy. They have produced heavenly music and exquisite works of art. They have unveiled the scientific secrets of the universe. They are among our most popular comedians, poets, and storytellers. And at 1.2 billion, they are also the largest minority group in the world. Al Etmanski offers ten lessons we can all learn from people with disabilities, illustrated with short, funny, inspiring, and thought-provoking stories of one hundred individuals from twenty countries. Some are familiar, like Michael J. Fox, Greta Thunberg, Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, and Temple Grandin. Others deserve to be, like Evelyn Glennie, a virtuoso percussionist who is deaf—her mission is to teach the world to listen to improve communication and social cohesion. Or Aaron Philip, who has revolutionized the runway as the first disabled, trans woman of color to become a professional model. The time has come to recognize people with disabilities for who they really are: authoritative sources on creativity, love, sexuality, resistance, dealing with adversity, and living a good life.
American Rehabilitation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical rehabilitation
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical rehabilitation
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Introduction to Kitty O'Neil
Author: Gilad James, PhD
Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN: 9849723866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Kitty O'Neil was an American stuntwoman and powerboat racer who was born deaf. Despite her hearing loss, she became one of the most accomplished stuntwomen in Hollywood, performing stunts in various films and TV shows, including "Wonder Woman," "The Bionic Woman," and "The Blues Brothers." Her most famous stunt was a 127-foot fall from a helicopter for the 1979 film "The Incredible Hulk." O'Neil also participated in motorsports and set a land-speed record in 1976, reaching 512 miles per hour on a rocket-powered vehicle. She later retired from stunt work and became a spokeswoman for the deaf community, advocating for better opportunities for people with disabilities. Throughout her life, O'Neil faced numerous challenges due to her deafness, but she never let it stop her from pursuing her dreams. She was a pioneer for women in the stunt industry and a role model for people with disabilities. Her legacy continues to inspire others to break down barriers and overcome adversity.
Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN: 9849723866
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Kitty O'Neil was an American stuntwoman and powerboat racer who was born deaf. Despite her hearing loss, she became one of the most accomplished stuntwomen in Hollywood, performing stunts in various films and TV shows, including "Wonder Woman," "The Bionic Woman," and "The Blues Brothers." Her most famous stunt was a 127-foot fall from a helicopter for the 1979 film "The Incredible Hulk." O'Neil also participated in motorsports and set a land-speed record in 1976, reaching 512 miles per hour on a rocket-powered vehicle. She later retired from stunt work and became a spokeswoman for the deaf community, advocating for better opportunities for people with disabilities. Throughout her life, O'Neil faced numerous challenges due to her deafness, but she never let it stop her from pursuing her dreams. She was a pioneer for women in the stunt industry and a role model for people with disabilities. Her legacy continues to inspire others to break down barriers and overcome adversity.
British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958
Author: Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Perspectives on Disability and Rehabilitation
Author: Karen Whalley Hammell
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 070203259X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The eBook version of this title gives you access to the complete book content electronically*. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of Occupational Therapy eBooks. *Please note that this version is the eBook only and does not include the printed textbook. Alternatively, you can buy the Text and Evolve eBooks Package (which gives you the printed book plus the eBook). Please scroll down to our Related Titles section to find this title. The book provides an accessible introduction to many of the current theoretical perspectives on disability; enabling readers to challenge the taken-for-granted nature of traditional knowledge and assumptions within the rehabilitation, health and community care industries, and encouraging a more critical approach both to the nature of rehabilitation following injury or illness and to the 'problem' of physical difference and disability. Through its interrogation and exploration of new theoretical perspectives on disability and rehabilitation, this book provides a unique text for students and practitioners of nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and social work and for educators and researchers in these fields.Although rehabilitation practitioners claim to aspire to client-centred practice and advocate participatory modes of research, rehabilitation theory remains curiously estranged both from theoretical perspectives developed by disabled/disability theorists and from critical perspectives on 'disability' that are emerging from other academic disciplines. Thus immune from alternate views, rehabilitation practitioners fail to question the premise that their professional assumptions are correct or 'right'. Contemporary theorists raise important questions, for example, about professional power, concepts of normality, independence and the physical body - issues central to rehabilitation - as well as to the role of the cultural environment in producing prejudice, the role of the social environment in creating disadvantage; and to issues of power and privilege and of the systemic oppression of disabled people. This book provides an introduction to the expanding body of critical work on disability by theorists from a range of perspectives, illustrating ways in which their theories and insights contest or support assumptions within rehabilitation theory. The book argues for a cross-fertilisation of ideas and challenges hierarchies of power in which nurses and therapists privilege their own assumptions, perspectives and knowledge while overlooking or ignoring the perspectives both of disabled people and of other theorists. - Provides an accessible introduction to current theoretical perspectives on disability - Demonstrates how these theoretical perspectives can inform a practitioner's approach to rehabilitation - Relevant for all the rehabilitation and health care professions
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 070203259X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The eBook version of this title gives you access to the complete book content electronically*. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of Occupational Therapy eBooks. *Please note that this version is the eBook only and does not include the printed textbook. Alternatively, you can buy the Text and Evolve eBooks Package (which gives you the printed book plus the eBook). Please scroll down to our Related Titles section to find this title. The book provides an accessible introduction to many of the current theoretical perspectives on disability; enabling readers to challenge the taken-for-granted nature of traditional knowledge and assumptions within the rehabilitation, health and community care industries, and encouraging a more critical approach both to the nature of rehabilitation following injury or illness and to the 'problem' of physical difference and disability. Through its interrogation and exploration of new theoretical perspectives on disability and rehabilitation, this book provides a unique text for students and practitioners of nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and social work and for educators and researchers in these fields.Although rehabilitation practitioners claim to aspire to client-centred practice and advocate participatory modes of research, rehabilitation theory remains curiously estranged both from theoretical perspectives developed by disabled/disability theorists and from critical perspectives on 'disability' that are emerging from other academic disciplines. Thus immune from alternate views, rehabilitation practitioners fail to question the premise that their professional assumptions are correct or 'right'. Contemporary theorists raise important questions, for example, about professional power, concepts of normality, independence and the physical body - issues central to rehabilitation - as well as to the role of the cultural environment in producing prejudice, the role of the social environment in creating disadvantage; and to issues of power and privilege and of the systemic oppression of disabled people. This book provides an introduction to the expanding body of critical work on disability by theorists from a range of perspectives, illustrating ways in which their theories and insights contest or support assumptions within rehabilitation theory. The book argues for a cross-fertilisation of ideas and challenges hierarchies of power in which nurses and therapists privilege their own assumptions, perspectives and knowledge while overlooking or ignoring the perspectives both of disabled people and of other theorists. - Provides an accessible introduction to current theoretical perspectives on disability - Demonstrates how these theoretical perspectives can inform a practitioner's approach to rehabilitation - Relevant for all the rehabilitation and health care professions