BOOKS by Mary Grimley Mason

Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery more books like this

by Mary Grimley Mason

When she was six, Mary Grimley was the nation's first 'poster child', dining with president Roosevelt at the Warm Springs rehabilitation centre and posing in her wheelchair for publicity shots. But a close look at the photos reveals something other than a 'cheerful invalid': eyes defiant and proud, this bold child is less than impressed with the ...

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Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives more books like this

by Mary Grimley Mason, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Foreword by)

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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