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Letters to my weird sisters : on autism and feminism / Joanne Limburg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Atlantic Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 262 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1838950052
  • 9781838950057
Other title:
  • On autism and feminism
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Foreword: Letter to the Reader -- Letter to Virginia Woolf -- Letter to Adelheid Bloch -- Letter to Frau V -- Letter to Katharina Kepler -- Afterword: Letter to Caron Freeborn -- Appendix -- Selected Further Reading.
Summary: "It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider. Eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time, she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four 'weird sisters' from history, addressing topics including autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the appalling punishments that have been meted out over centuries to those deemed to fall short of the norm. This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanizes women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere" -- Publisher's description.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 305.42 L733 Available 33111010911739
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An autistic feminist author looks at women's history, in search of her 'weird sisters'.

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244).

Foreword: Letter to the Reader -- Letter to Virginia Woolf -- Letter to Adelheid Bloch -- Letter to Frau V -- Letter to Katharina Kepler -- Afterword: Letter to Caron Freeborn -- Appendix -- Selected Further Reading.

"It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider. Eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time, she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four 'weird sisters' from history, addressing topics including autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the appalling punishments that have been meted out over centuries to those deemed to fall short of the norm. This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanizes women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere" -- Publisher's description.

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