Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America

by Gelya Frank

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In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520217160

ISBN13:9780520217164

Release Date:May 2000

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:299 Pages

Weight:3.50 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Cultural Disabled Gay & Lesbian Mathematics Politics & Social Sciences Science & Math

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