Description: Further DetailsTitle: Sitting PrettyCondition: NewSubtitle: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled BodyISBN-10: 0062936794EAN: 9780062936790ISBN: 9780062936790Publisher: HarperOneFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/17/2020Description: A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 351gGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Personal Development, Medicine, Literary Criticism, Social Sciences, BiographyAuthor: Rebekah TaussigRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Subtitle: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
ISBN-10: 0062936794
EAN: 9780062936790
ISBN: 9780062936790
Release Date: 09/17/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Biography
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Sitting Pretty : the View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, Internal Medicine, Social Activists
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.7 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Author: Rebekah Taussig
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
