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- Book Title
- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
- ISBN
- 9780062936806
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062936808
ISBN-13
9780062936806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3050033711
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Sitting Pretty : the View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Publication Year
2021
Subject
People with Disabilities, Internal Medicine, Essays
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
6.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Sitting Pretty is the book I needed years ago as I grappled with my sense of self and my identity as a disabled woman. I put it down while reading only long enough to collect myself each time waves of emotion crashed over me. Rebekah's spunky, self-aware wit, combined with education that never feels didactic, make this book a worthwhile and rewarding read., Rebekah writes in a way that is somehow both world-shakingly profound and beautifully intimate. Her voice is unforgettable in its power to make you feel, question, learn, and grow. There aren't words for how much the world needs this book., Rebekah Taussig's writing is a gift that keeps giving. Her voice is honest, vulnerable and welcoming...It was a joy to read and listen to Rebekah's words. This beautiful book helped me ask questions, open my heart, and remind me to look more closely at the world around me and what small part we can all have in making it a better, more accessible one., A compelling personal book whose confidential voice leads the reader into the author's vividly lived world of disability. Smart and funny, [Sitting Pretty] does double duty revealing not only the intimate life of a disabled woman but the flaws of the world around her that seeks to repress and contain her., Reflecting on her journey toward disability advocacy, Rebekah Taussig's memoir in essays will make you rethink everything you've previously believed about disabled people and their lives. Reflecting on Taussig's personal experiences, and on disability representation more broadly, Sitting Pretty is a rare book from a powerful, new voice., "Rebekah writes in a way that is somehow both world-shakingly profound and beautifully intimate. Her voice is unforgettable in its power to make you feel, question, learn, and grow. There aren't words for how much the world needs this book." -- Megan Jayne Crabbe, bestselling author of Body Positive Power "A disability advocate debuts with a collection offering potent rejoinders to ableism.....A fierce and fabulous revision to entrenched ableist scripts." -- Kirkus Reviews [Starred Review] "Sitting Pretty is the book I needed years ago as I grappled with my sense of self and my identity as a disabled woman. I put it down while reading only long enough to collect myself each time waves of emotion crashed over me. Rebekah's spunky, self-aware wit, combined with education that never feels didactic, make this book a worthwhile and rewarding read." -- Emily Ladau, writer, speaker, and disability rights activist "Rebekah Taussig's writing is a gift that keeps giving. Her voice is honest, vulnerable and welcoming...It was a joy to read and listen to Rebekah's words. This beautiful book helped me ask questions, open my heart, and remind me to look more closely at the world around me and what small part we can all have in making it a better, more accessible one." -- Grace Bonney, founder of Design*Sponge and author of In the Company of Women "A compelling personal book whose confidential voice leads the reader into the author's vividly lived world of disability. Smart and funny, [Sitting Pretty] does double duty revealing not only the intimate life of a disabled woman but the flaws of the world around her that seeks to repress and contain her." -- Lennard J. Davis, Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Enforcing Normalcy and My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness "An invaluable, eye-opening look at disability from a firsthand perspective." -- Booklist "Her smart and witty observations about living with disabilities will be enlightening and eye-opening for readers." -- Publishers Weekly "Reflecting on her journey toward disability advocacy, Rebekah Taussig's memoir in essays will make you rethink everything you've previously believed about disabled people and their lives. Reflecting on Taussig's personal experiences, and on disability representation more broadly, Sitting Pretty is a rare book from a powerful, new voice." -- Bustle "A groundbreaking and candid memoir" -- Shelf Awareness "Taussig's narrative style is highly conversational, making it feel like one is chatting with a lifelong friend. Her ability to bring levity to a topic some may find taboo is certain to help spread her message of acceptance and love." -- Library Journal (starred review), A compelling personal book whose confidential voice leads the reader into the author's vividly lived world of disability. Smart and funny, [ Sitting Pretty ] does double duty revealing not only the intimate life of a disabled woman but the flaws of the world around her that seeks to repress and contain her., Taussig's narrative style is highly conversational, making it feel like one is chatting with a lifelong friend. Her ability to bring levity to a topic some may find taboo is certain to help spread her message of acceptance and love., >"A disability advocate debuts with a collection offering potent rejoinders to ableism.....A fierce and fabulous revision to entrenched ableist scripts.", Her smart and witty observations about living with disabilities will be enlightening and eye-opening for readers., A disability advocate debuts with a collection offering potent rejoinders to ableism.....A fierce and fabulous revision to entrenched ableist scripts.
Dewey Decimal
362.43092
Synopsis
From disability advocate Rebekah Taussig comes an intimate and eye-opening essay collection that processes a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Book jacket., A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn't fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.
LC Classification Number
RC406.P3T38 2021
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