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Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Release: August 24, 2004

ISBN: 1555536301

ISBN 13: 9781555536305

Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Release: August 24, 2004

ISBN: 1555536301

ISBN 13: 9781555536305

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