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A World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister's institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society's inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion.

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A World without Martha reminds us that disability is not just an individual issue, it is a family issue. -- David J. Wilson * H-Disability *

Table of Contents

Author’s Note

1 Baby

2 Conceptions

3 One on Every Street

4 Substitutions

5 The Fairy Hill

6 Jesus Loves Me

7 Fair Exchange

8 “Progress and Happiness”

9 Revolutions

10 Normalization

11 Becoming Human

12 Into the Fire

13 Breakthroughs

14 Echoes

15 Crossing Over

16 Ashes

17 Remembering

18 Not Ending

19 Second Chances

20 How Far You’ve Come

21 Remember Every Name

Postscript; A Note on Sources

A World without Martha

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2019
      ISBN13: 9780774880404, 978-0774880404
      ISBN10: 0774880406

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister's institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society's inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion.

      Trade Review
      A World without Martha reminds us that disability is not just an individual issue, it is a family issue. -- David J. Wilson * H-Disability *

      Table of Contents

      Author’s Note

      1 Baby

      2 Conceptions

      3 One on Every Street

      4 Substitutions

      5 The Fairy Hill

      6 Jesus Loves Me

      7 Fair Exchange

      8 “Progress and Happiness”

      9 Revolutions

      10 Normalization

      11 Becoming Human

      12 Into the Fire

      13 Breakthroughs

      14 Echoes

      15 Crossing Over

      16 Ashes

      17 Remembering

      18 Not Ending

      19 Second Chances

      20 How Far You’ve Come

      21 Remember Every Name

      Postscript; A Note on Sources

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