My body politic
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Simi Linton.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780472115396
Subjects: Linton, Simi, 1947-; Women with disabilities -- United States -- Biography; Paraplegics -- United States -- Biography; Traffic accident victims -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "While hitchhiking from Boston to Washington, D.C., in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam, Simi Linton was involved in a car accident that paralyzed her legs and took the lives of her young husband and her best friend. Her memoir begins with her struggle to regain physical and emotional strength and to resume her life in the world. Then Linton takes us on the road she traveled (with stops in Berkeley, Paris, Havana) and back to her home in Manhattan, as she learns what it means to be a disabled person in America.".

"Linton eventually completed a Ph.D., remarried, and began teaching at Hunter College. Along the way she became deeply committed to the disability rights movement and to the people she joined forces with. The stories in My Body Politic are populated with richly drawn portraits of Linton's disabled comrades, people of conviction and lusty exuberance who dance, play - and organize - with passion and commitment.".

"My Body Politic begins in the midst of the turmoil over Vietnam and concludes with a meditation on the U.S. involvement in the current war in Iraq and the war's wounded veterans. While a memoir of the author's gradual political awakening, My Body Politic is filled with adventure, celebration, and rock and roll - Salvador Dali, James Brown, and Jimi Hendrix all make cameo appearances."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Conscripts to the cavalry; title: Brave new world; title: Coming out in the West; title: A special education; title: Going away; title: Pleasures and freedoms; title: The design of my life; title: I sing my body electric; title: What I learned; title: Weddings and marriages; title: Citizens in good standing; title: Lessons from children; title: Rufus; title: Odyssey of a sure-footed man; title: The cripple girl and the blind boy go to the museum; title: Our body politics.