Harilyn Rousso is a disability activist, feminist, psychotherapist, writer, and painter. She is the President of Disabilities Unlimited Consulting Services, founder of the Networking Project for Disabled Women and Girls, coeditor of Double Jeopardy: Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education and author of Disabled, Female and Proud!
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Contents Preface Acknowledgments I Close Encounters with the Clueless 1 Who’s Harilyn? 2 Birth, Mine 3 Close Encounters with the Clueless 4 The Beggar and the Cripple 5 The Stare 6 Always the Other 7 Why I am Not Inspirational 8 Home II On Leaving Home 9 Wedding Day, 1933 10 Dancing 11 Exploding Beans 12 My Sister 13 Adolescent Conversation 14 On Leaving Home 15 Hideous Shoes 16 Driving High 17 Eli 18 My Father, Myself 19 Driving away from Home III On Not Looking in the Mirror 20 Walk Straight! 21 On Not Looking in the Mirror 22 Facing My Face 23 Meditations on Speech and Silence 24 Daring Digits 25 Right-Hand Painting 26 Being Only One: Some Meditations on Solitude IV What's a Woman? 27 What’s a Woman? 28 He Was the One 29 Blank Page 30 Buying the Wedding Dress 31 First Date 32 First Night 33 Mixed Couple 34 Sylvester 35 Faces of Eve 36 Tough Bird 37 Hand in Hand V Why Claim Disability? 38 Finding My Way 39 Keeping the Distance 40 That “Inspirational” Label 41 Token of Approval 42 Disabled Women’s Community 43 The Story of Betty, Revisited 44 Listening to Myself 45 Activist Sisters 46 Toilet Troubles 47 My Mentoring Project 48 Why Claim Disability? 49 Broken Silences 50 Eulogy for My Nondisabled Self 51 Eulogy for My Freakish Self 52 Ode to My Disabled Self
Contents Preface Acknowledgments I Close Encounters with the Clueless 1 Who’s Harilyn? 2 Birth, Mine 3 Close Encounters with the Clueless 4 The Beggar and the Cripple 5 The Stare 6 Always the Other 7 Why I am Not Inspirational 8 Home II On Leaving Home 9 Wedding Day, 1933 10 Dancing 11 Exploding Beans 12 My Sister 13 Adolescent Conversation 14 On Leaving Home 15 Hideous Shoes 16 Driving High 17 Eli 18 My Father, Myself 19 Driving away from Home III On Not Looking in the Mirror 20 Walk Straight! 21 On Not Looking in the Mirror 22 Facing My Face 23 Meditations on Speech and Silence 24 Daring Digits 25 Right-Hand Painting 26 Being Only One: Some Meditations on Solitude IV What's a Woman? 27 What’s a Woman? 28 He Was the One 29 Blank Page 30 Buying the Wedding Dress 31 First Date 32 First Night 33 Mixed Couple 34 Sylvester 35 Faces of Eve 36 Tough Bird 37 Hand in Hand V Why Claim Disability? 38 Finding My Way 39 Keeping the Distance 40 That “Inspirational” Label 41 Token of Approval 42 Disabled Women’s Community 43 The Story of Betty, Revisited 44 Listening to Myself 45 Activist Sisters 46 Toilet Troubles 47 My Mentoring Project 48 Why Claim Disability? 49 Broken Silences 50 Eulogy for My Nondisabled Self 51 Eulogy for My Freakish Self 52 Ode to My Disabled Self
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