The ragged edge : the disability experience from the pages of the first fifteen years of The disability rag / edited by Barrett Shaw ; [with a foreword by Mary Johnson].
Articles and poems originally published in The disability rag, 1982-1994. "2nd printing, 2002."
Contents:
Introduction -- Preface. Why we do what we do / Cass Irvin -- Coming together. Aphasia / Edward L. Hooper -- Seeking the disabled community / Edward L. Hooper -- Like squabbling cubs / Mary Jane Owen -- Malcolm teaches us, too / Marta Russell -- Disability culture rap / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Image and images. Survivor / S.L. Rosen -- Thoughts on thinking differently / Tanis Doe -- Boutonnieres / John R. Woodward -- Toward a theory of radical disability photography / Anne Finger -- Giving it back / Cris Matthews -- Questioning continuum / Carol J. Gill. This is oppression. The first taste / Cass Irvin -- The room of pain and loneliness / Edward L. Hooper -- Disconfirmation / Billy Golfus -- Cowboy justice in Tiburon / Arthur Jacobs -- Hate / Barbara Faye Waxman -- Private matters. Public stripping / Lisa Blumberg -- New insights / Edward L. Hooper -- It's time to politicize our sexual oppression / Barbara Faye Waxman -- It ain't exactly sexy / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Poems. Excavation / Kenny Fries -- Lunch break / Laura Hershey -- White caps / Margaret Robison -- Reconciliation / Cheryl Marie Wade -- Reading braille / Mary McGinnis. Thanksgiving Day feast / Susan McBride -- Travelling / Katherine Simpson -- Like walking on the moon / Nancy Scott -- Now and then again / Susan Hansell -- Trajectories / Brian Hartshorn -- Becoming beautiful / Nancy Bigelow Clark -- The pity ploy. --and the greatest of these is charity / Anne Finger -- A test of wills: Jerry Lewis, Jerry's orphans and the Telethon / Mary Johnson -- Time to grow up / Julie Shaw Cole and Mary Johnson -- ADAPT ability and other actions. On the barricades with ADAPT / Mary Johnson. Wade Blank's liberated community / Laura Hershey -- The power of one person / Mary Johnson -- Are we being served? The Do-gooder / Billy Golfus -- Why the nation doesn't have attendant services / Mary Johnson -- Auschwitz on Sesame Street / Lucy Gwin -- Life and death. Unanswered questions / Mary Johnson -- Suicide: political or personal / Julie Reiskin -- Silence on the psychiatric holocaust / Steve Mendelsohn -- Springtime for Hitler / Kathi Wolfe -- Eugenics and reproductive choice / Lisa Blumberg -- It can happen here / John R. Woodward -- Notes on contributors.
Summary:
"What this book attempts to capture and convey is simply the experience of being a person with a disability in America today. What does it feel like? The introduction says: "It is hard to unravel the tangled, knotted ball of the disability experience - isolation and differentness versus a common identity; images of weakness, vulnerability, enforced childishness, learned helplessness versus defiance, willingness to make waves and change the status quo; pity, destroying dignity, and its other side, fear, fear of our differentness, our 'imperfection,' as if perfection were humanly achievable, and then our own fear, raw fear of attitudes that would destroy our kind, whether by genocide, selective abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide of rationing of care. This book attempts to weave a rough but strong cloth from these gnarled strands, to give the feel of the disability experience."" "It's a cloth we all might have to put on at any time, particularly as we live longer. Here is an opportunity to learn, from those who know, how to wear it with style and pride."--BOOK JACKET.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.