Bibliograph

Letters to my weird sisters, Joanne Limburg

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Letters to my weird sisters, Joanne Limburg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244)

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contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Letters to my weird sisters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1309819406

Responsibility statement

Joanne Limburg

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 humanises women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere

Table Of 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

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Letters to my weird sisters, on autism and feminism

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