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050 00 HV1568|b.L37 2019 
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082 00 362.4092|aB|223 
100 1  LaSpina, Nadina,|eauthor. 
245 10 Such a pretty girl :|ba story of struggle, empowerment, 
       and disability pride /|cNadina LaSpina. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bNew Village Press,|c2019. 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    x, 338 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Part I: Che peccato: what a shame. Riposto -- The best 
       hospital -- Blood sisters -- Blythedale -- The real world 
       -- Better off -- A place where I never want to go back -- 
       Part II: Fighting back. We can fight for our rights -- 
       Just one of the graduate students -- The handicapped 
       teacher -- Amputation -- You do what you have to do -- Not
       a real cheery picture -- Part III: Love and activism. Love
       and activism on two continents -- Free our people -- No 
       need to settle -- The handsome new guy -- Dead of winter -
       - Danny -- Crips are beautiful -- Part IV: Come sono 
       contenta: how happy I am. Vado via contenta: I'm going 
       away happy -- Come sono contenta: how happy I am -- Thank 
       you, life -- I promise we'll have fun -- Riposto. 
520    "Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story--from her 
       early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she 
       contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-
       meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; 
       to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost 
       entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest 
       for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer 
       belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the 
       disability rights movement. LaSpina's personal growth 
       parallels the movement's political development--from 
       coming together, organizing, and fighting against 
       exclusion from public and social life, to the forging of a
       common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and 
       culture, and the embracing of disability pride. While 
       unique, the author's journey is also one with which many 
       disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find 
       one's place in an ableist world--a world not made for 
       disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative
       terms. La Spina refutes all stereotypical narratives of 
       disability. Through the telling of her life's story, 
       without editorializing, she shows the harm that the 
       overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains 
       elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the
       disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical 
       system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy 
       in a society that devalues those who are different and 
       denies them basic rights. Written as continuous narrative 
       and in a subtle and intimate voice, Such a Pretty Girl is 
       a memoir as captivating as a novel. It is one of the few 
       disability memoirs to focus on activism, and one of the 
       first by an immigrant." -- Publisher's description 
530    Also available in electronic format. 
600 10 LaSpina, Nadina|xHealth. 
600 12 LaSpina, Nadina. 
650  0 People with disabilities|vBiography. 
650  0 People with disabilities|xSocial conditions. 
650  0 Poliomyelitis|xPatients|vBiography. 
650  0 People with disabilities|xCivil rights|zUnited States. 
650  2 Disabled Persons.|0(DNLM)D006233 
650  2 Poliomyelitis.|0(DNLM)D011051 
650  2 Women.|0(DNLM)D014930 
650  2 Civil Rights.|0(DNLM)D002961 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 
650  7 LAW / Disability.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Health.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00952743 
650  7 People with disabilities.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01057245 
650  7 People with disabilities|xSocial conditions.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01057340 
651  2 United States.|0(DNLM)D014481 
655  0 Biography. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919894 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
776 08 |iElectronic version:|aLaSpina, Nadina.|tSuch a pretty 
       girl.|bFirst edition.|dNew York : New Village Press, 2019
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