Home Bound

by Irvin, Cass

• ISBN13: 9781592132201
• ISBN10: 1592132200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

"When I was growing up, I learned that if you were a girl you went to school and college, then you married, became a wife and had a family. . . . When I became disabled, my journey, I was pretty sure, was not going to take me in those directions. What was I supposed to be? What kind of life was I supposed to have?" Once polio had made her a quadriplegic, Cass Irvin didn't know where she fit in or what would become of her. Neither did her parents, teachers, counselors, or rehabilitation therapists. And so began her search for a place to call home. In this memoir, Cass Irvin tells of the remarkable journey that transformed her from a young girl too timid to ask for help to a community activist and writer who speaks forcefully about the needs of people with disabilities. As a young girl she was taken to Warm Springs, Georgia, where she learned about living as a disabled person and found a hero in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the famously if silently disabled president. Bright and inquisitive, Cass soon began to question the prevailing assumptions of a society that h

Author Biography

Cass Irvin lives in Louisville, Kentucky. She is Executive Director of Access to the Arts, Inc. and is a frequent contributor to The Ragged Edge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 From the Kitty Room	1	(14)
2 True Home: Warm Springs	15	(38)
3 Attendant Vibrations	53	(46)
4 The Radicalization of Cass	99	(70)
5 True Hero	169