Working Against Odds
Subtitle: Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives
Contributors: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Foreword)
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: August 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781555536305
Subjects: Biography: general; Disability: social aspects; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Handicapped; Women with disabilities; Sociology; United States; Social conditions; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Discrimination against people with disabilities; Discrimination against people; Psychology
Description: In this ... ethnographic study of disabled women's relationships with work, [the author] describes the viewpoints, struggles, strategies, and triumphs of eighteen women with a range of physical and sensory impairments. She relates how each came to terms with her disability and achieved self-identity and self-sufficiency in an able-bodied world.-Back cover.