Such a Pretty Girl. A Story Of Struggle, Empowerment And Disability Pride By Nadina LaSpina

Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story―from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the disability rights movement._x000D_

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LaSpina’s personal growth parallels the movement’s political development―from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life, to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride._x000D_

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While unique, the author's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world―a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negativ