Venus on wheels : two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America /
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 relati...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780520922358 0520922352 0585391785 9780585391786 9780520217157 0520217152 9780520217164 0520217160 1597349763 9781597349765 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |