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

Victoria Freeman

A World without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Country
Canada
Published
1 October 2019
Pages
328
ISBN
9780774880404

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

Victoria Freeman

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 1960s Ontario 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.

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