Ben Mattlin: Unbound, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Unbound
- Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist
- Publisher:
- Blair, 06/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781958888520
- Item number:
- 11999961
- Volume:
- 292 Pages
- Weight:
- 395 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 24.6.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
This insightful and often witty collection of essays charts the making of a reluctant disability activist---including his commentary for NPR, the New York Times and elsewhere.
Ben Mattlin was born in 1962 with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital and progressive neuromuscular weakness. He never stood or walked but grew up expecting a normal life. In this book of essays, he chronicles that life and also charts his growth as a reluctant disability activist and public intellectual.
Mattlin's disability was from birth. Raised in a family that insisted that he be educated in a mainstream setting, he never thought about his disability as being an obstacle until adulthood. It was not until he had graduated from Harvard and could not find a job that he began to understand what disability rights activists were talking about.
These collected short pieces chronicle Mattlin's intellectual coming-of-age including his beginnings, difficult conversations about disability, the social aspects of being disabled in a nondisabled world, and a wider perspective as the author looks back on his sixty years of disability. The book contains a variety of essays intermixed with a few edited podcast transcripts. Some of the pieces are deeply personal; others are stridently political. All of them are guaranteed to make readers see life and the world in a new way.
Altogether, this collection is a frank, unsentimental examination of some of the most important and moving issues of our day---always rendered with intelligence, sensitivity, and a liberal sprinkling of humor.