Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America

by Gelya Frank

Book Overview

In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520217160
• ISBN13: 9780520217164
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"