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In this ethnographic study of disabled women's relationship with work, Mary Grimley Mason describes the viewpoints, struggles, strategies, and triumphs of eighteen women with a range of physical and sensory impairments. She relates how each came to terms with her disability and achieved self-identity and self-sufficiency in an able-bodied world.

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An offering motivated by respectful curiosity, admiration, compassion, and the hope of raising public awareness . . . --Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

An offering motivated by respectful curiosity, admiration, compassion, and the hope of raising public awareness . . . --Biography an Interdisciplinary Quarterly

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Mary Grimley Mason is Professor Emerita of English and former Director of the Women's Studies Program at Emmanuel College. She is the author of Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery. She lives in the Boston area. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Disability in American Literature and Culture and coeditor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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