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Records the relationship that developed between the author and Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society - except arms and legs. This work argues that DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. My Introduction to Diane
2. The Crisis of Representation: Why It Is Time
for Cultural Biography
3· "There's Nothing about the Disabled Woman
and the Disabled Culture"-Diane DeVries, 1976
4· Disability in American Culture:
Transformations in Diane's Life and Life Story
5· How Typical or Representative (and of What)
Is the Life of Diane De Vries?
6. "The Biography in the Shadow" Meets "Venus on
Wheels": From Empathy to the Mirror Phenomenon
7. !-Witnessing Diane's "I": Time, Ethics, and
Epistemology
8. The Women in Diane's Body:
Narrative Ambiguity in a Material World
9· Conclusion: Truly Your Diane
Photographs
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/05/2000
      ISBN13: 9780520217164, 978-0520217164
      ISBN10: 0520217160
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Records the relationship that developed between the author and Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society - except arms and legs. This work argues that DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      1. My Introduction to Diane
      2. The Crisis of Representation: Why It Is Time
      for Cultural Biography
      3· "There's Nothing about the Disabled Woman
      and the Disabled Culture"-Diane DeVries, 1976
      4· Disability in American Culture:
      Transformations in Diane's Life and Life Story
      5· How Typical or Representative (and of What)
      Is the Life of Diane De Vries?
      6. "The Biography in the Shadow" Meets "Venus on
      Wheels": From Empathy to the Mirror Phenomenon
      7. !-Witnessing Diane's "I": Time, Ethics, and
      Epistemology
      8. The Women in Diane's Body:
      Narrative Ambiguity in a Material World
      9· Conclusion: Truly Your Diane
      Photographs
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Credits
      Index

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