Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices (Hbi Series on Jewish Women) - Softcover

Brimmer, Gaby; Poniatowska, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584657588 ISBN 13: 9781584657583

Publisher: Brandeis University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Gabriela Brimmer (1947–2000), born with cerebral palsy, communicated largely by typing with her left foot on an electric typewriter, and by using that foot to point at letters and numbers on an “alphabet board” at the base of her wheelchair. Raised by her mother, Sari, and Mexican caregiver Florencia Morales Sánchez, Gaby gained admission to Mexico City public schools, attended the prestigious National Autonomous University of Mexico, and became a key figure in launching Mexico’s disability rights movement. With the text structured by renowned writer Elena Poniatowska to alternate Gaby’s voice with those of her mother and Florencia, this volume is both the memoir of an extraordinary woman and a unique and imaginative form of autobiographical writing.

About this title

About the Author

ELENA PONIATOWSKA is one of Mexico's foremost writers. TRUDY BALCH, who translated the original volume from the Spanish, is a writer, editor, and Spanish- and Ladino-to-English translator. JUDITH E. HEUMANN and JORGE PINEDA are longtime disability-rights experts and activists; LAURI UMANSKY is professor of history at Suffolk University and co-editor of The New Disability History: American Perspectives; and historian AVITAL BLOCH is research professor and director of the Center for Social Research, University of Colima, Mexico.

Review

"This book is among pioneering works about disabled people, especially women with disabilities." --Americana, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungar

Edition details

• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1584657588
• ISBN 13: 9781584657583
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232