Book
A world without Martha : a memoir of sisters, disability, and difference
Publication Information
Vancouver, BC : Purich Books, [2019]
Physical Description
x, 316 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Summary
"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."--
Subjects
- Siblings of children with disabilities > Ontario > Biography
- Children with mental disabilities > Ontario > Biography.
- Children with mental disabilities > Institutional care > Ontario.
- Children with mental disabilities > Care > Ontario.
- Children with mental disabilities > Family relationships > Ontario.
- Children with Down syndrome > Ontario > Biography
- Children with Down syndrome > Institutional care > Ontario.
- Children with Down syndrome > Care > Ontario.
- Children with Down syndrome > Family relationships > Ontario.
- Freeman, Victoria (Victoria Jane) > Family.
- Freeman, Martha, 1958-2002.