Name: A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
SKU: 53488656
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Author: Victoria Freeman

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A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of British Columbia Press

Author

Victoria Freeman

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

328

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780774880404

Synopsis "A World Without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference "

Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in 1960s Ontario there was little community acceptance or support for raising children with intellectual disabilities at home. In this frank and moving memoir, Victoria describes growing up in a world that excluded and dehumanized her sister, and how society’s insistence that only a “normal” life was worth living affected her sister, her family, and herself, until changing attitudes to disability and difference offered both sisters new possibilities for healing and self-discovery.

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