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Book Description: Brandeis University Press, Waltham, 2009. Softcover. Book Condition: New. 240 pages. Softcover. New book. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The remarkable autobiography of Mexican-Jewish disability rights activist and writer Gabriela Brimmer. Gabriela Brimmer (1947-2000), born with cerebral palsy, communicated largely by typing with her left foot on an electric typewriter, and by using that foot to point at letters and numbers on an "alphabet board" at the base of her wheelchair. Raised by her mother, Sari, and Mexican caregiver Florencia Morales S‡nchez, Gaby gained admission to Mexico City public schools, attended the prestigious National Autonomous University of Mexico, and became a key figure in launching Mexico's disability rights movement. With the text structured by renowned writer Elena Poniatowska to alternate Gaby's voice with those of her mother and Florencia, this volume is both the memoir of an extraordinary woman and a unique and imaginative form of autobiographical writing. "Gabriela Brimmer moved her big toe to craft poetry and moved the world to defend the disabled. Elena Poniatowska bends the rules of journalism to tell her story in a polyphonic memoir . Humbling and admirable!"ÑIlan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College "Gaby Brimmer's story is perhaps one of the most deeply human testimonials Elena Poniatowska has published. Moreover, it is a story that has been crucial to the disabled rights movement in Mexico. Trudy Balch's excellent translation brings Gaby Brimmer to the fore again, and it is my hope that it will contribute to the nascent field of Latin American disability cultural studies."ÑDavid William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University Elena Poniatowska is one of Mexico's foremost writers. Trudy Balch, who translated the original volume into English from the Spanish, is a writer, editor, and Spanish- and Ladino-to-English translator. Judith E. Heumann and Jorge Pineda are longtime disability-rights experts and activists; Lauri Umansky is professor of history at Suffolk University and co-editor of The New Disability History: American Perspectives; and historian Avital Bloch is research professor and director of the Center for Social Research, University of Colima, Mexico. (Key Words: Gaby Brimmer, Disability Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Elena Poniatowska, Memoirs, Autobiography, Jewish Women, Florencia Morales, Sanchez, Judith E. Heumann, Jorge Pineda, Lauri Umansky, Avital Bloch). First Edition. HBI Series on Jewish Women. book. Bookseller Inventory # 65985X1

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Book Description: University Press of New England, United States, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 152 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Gabriela Brimmer (1947-2000), born with cerebral palsy, communicated largely by typing with her left foot on an electric typewriter, and by using that foot to point at letters and numbers on an "alphabet board" at the base of her wheelchair. Raised by her mother, Sari, and Mexican caregiver Florencia Morales Sanchez, Gaby gained admission to Mexico City public schools, attended the prestigious National Autonomous University of Mexico, and became a key figure in launching Mexico's disability rights movement. With the text structured by renowned writer Elena Poniatowska to alternate Gaby's voice with those of her mother and Florencia, this volume is both the memoir of an extraordinary woman and a unique and imaginative form of autobiographical writing. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9781584657583

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Book Description: University Press of New England. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices, Gaby Brimmer, Elena Poniatowska, This is the remarkable autobiography of Mexican-Jewish disability-rights activist and writer Gabriela Brimmer. This English-language translation of the autobiography of Gabriela Brimmer (1947-2000) tells an amazing story in three voices. Gaby, who had cerebral palsy, communicated largely by typing with her left foot on an electric typewriter, and also by using that foot to point at letters and numbers on an 'alphabet board' at the base of her wheelchair. She gained admission to Mexico City public schools, attended the prestigious National Autonomous University of Mexico, and became a key figure in launching Mexico's disability rights movement. Brimmer was raised by her parents, Austrian Jews who fled the Nazis in the late 1930s, and a devoted Mexican caregiver, Florencia Morales Sanchez. Renowned writer Elena Poniatowska structured this text by alternating Gaby's voice with those of her mother, Sari, and Florencia. Memorable not just as the memoir of an extraordinary woman, but as a unique and imaginative form of autobiographical writing, the volume opens with a foreword by Judith E. Heumann and Jorge Pineda, and features a new introduction by Lauri Umansky and afterword by Avital Bloch providing additional context about Gaby's life and writing, as well as disability, women's, and Jewish/Mexican history. Bookseller Inventory # B9781584657583

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