With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology [Paperback]

Susan Browne (Author, Editor), Debra Connors (Author, Editor), Nanci Stern (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 354 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Pr (May 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939416069
• ISBN-13: 978-0939416066
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,195,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars With the power of each word..., January 10, 2005

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Kali "bengaligirl" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With the Power of Each Breath: A Disabled Women's Anthology (Paperback)

What a shame such a wonderful book doesn't even warrant a single review from all those supposed intellectual readers who claim to "understand" disability and what it means for millions of women all over the world.

I found this book in a thrift shop for a dollar here in the UK and what a buy it was is all I can say!

This is an anthology for disabled women by disabled women but it is also for YOU abled bodied folk who think YOU KNOW what it is like to be in a body where you are physically powerless or have a mind that is considered "different" and therefore not normal. This book will tell you what it is really like, it spares no punches and takes no prisoners.

There are poems, life stories, experiences, angst, humour, sorrow, irony, anger, dreams fulfilled or not as the case may be, no two voices in this book are the same.

This book is not a sentimental journey down the "what might have been" lane it's a book about real people living real lives.

A gem of a book that sadly has been overlooked by many.

Readers all I can say is "you don't what you're missing!"