Venus on Wheels
Subtitle: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780520217164
Subjects: Coping with disability; Social & cultural anthropology; Women's studies; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Social conditions; People with disabilities; Women with disabilities; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Statistics; Sociology; Specific Groups - Special Needs; Women; Social Science / Anthropology / General; DeVries, Diane; Sociology - General; Biography; Psychology; United States
First sentence: In 1976 I 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.