Home Bound: Growing Up with a Disability in America

by Cass Irvin

Book Overview

"When I was growing up, I learned that if you were a girl you went to school and college, then you married, became a wife and had a family. . . . When I became disabled, my journey, I was pretty sure, was not going to take me in those directions. What was I supposed to be? What kind of life was I supposed to have?"Once polio had made her a quadriplegic, Cass Irvin didn't know where she fit in or what would become of her. Neither did her parents, teachers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592132200
• ISBN13: 9781592132201
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"