A World without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference

Freeman, Victoria

ISBN 10: 0774880406 / ISBN 13: 9780774880404

Published by UBC Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A World without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774880406
• ISBN 13: 9780774880404
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in the 1960s there was little community acceptance or support-for raising children with intellectual disabilities at home. In this frank and moving memoir, Victoria describes growing up-in a world that excluded and dehumanized her sister, and how society's insistence that only a "normal" life was worth-living affected her sister, her family, and herself, until changing attitudes to disability and difference offered both sisters new possibilities for healing and self-discovery.

About the Author

Victoria Freeman is a writer, theatre artist, educator, and public historian. She is the co-creator, with Sol Express, of Birds Make Me Think About Freedom, a play about the experiences of peoples institutionalized for intellectual disability, and author of Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America. She teaches in the Canadian Studies Program at Glendon College, York University, in Toronto.