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Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture »

Authors: Shelley Tremain
ISBN-13: 9780889612181, ISBN-10: 0889612188
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
Date Published: July 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Shelley Tremain

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Addressing the power and importance of language, graphically illustrating the misuse of power, corruption and convenience that governs the medical profession, and questioning the passive disinterest of our non-disabled sisters, Pushing the Limits is both painful and celebratory. Far from a rant about the inevitable oppression of living with societal "norms" and institutionalised "isms", this anthology is sensitive, intelligent and questioning. Each disabled dyke in her own unique way has contributed to that developing phenomenon that we know is disabled dyke culture.

	Acknowledgements	13
	Introduction: We're Here. We're Disabled and Queer. Get Used to It	15
	Mother/daughter	27
	On Being	29
	To the bone	31
	Spoons	32
	Untitled	33
	Mastectomy	35
	Mirror Image	36
	Lost in the Swamp	38
	The hand that grasps	40
	Untitled	45
	The good mother	52
	Green Beans and the Blue Angel	54
	Body Shield	61
	Love Isn't	65
	Her Gift To Me Is A Window	67
	Full day	70
	"...and I will have sex again"	72
	Love Pain and the Fading of Orchids	77
	Liberation	81
	To My Other Bodies	85
	Thursday Afternoon and the Laws of the Universe	87
	Caretaker Nightmares	91
	Snake Woman	92
	Lament to the Medical-Industrial Division of the Capitalist Patriarchal	95
	She worked	99
	Asthmatic Conditions	100
	Anger	105
	Sleight of Hand	106
	Stop Feeling or You'll Never Be Normal Again: My Life With Cancer Since Lump Day	107
	Rejection	131
	And yet such a small word	132
	I Am Your Sister	135
	Indomitable Spirits Unbroken	136
	Mae Still Be Alive	138
	Muscle Fetish	141
	This Ability	143
	Things That I Hear Too Many Times (Speaking of Fear)	144
	Remedies	148
	The Queen of Pain	150
	Oxygenated Babe	152
	Which map is not whose territory?	154
	Poster Kids No More	164
	Passing	166
	Bird Spirit	171
	And Still I Fight	172
	Rain Woman	188
	Hospital Green: The Psych Ward	190
	Survival, Silence and the Obvious Remains	192
	Homeless	198
	Lockout	203
	Connections	204
	Seizure	206
	Melody Heartbeat of a Black Deaf Woman	211
	A Virtual Harvest	212
	Aknoha	219
	Clay Woman	221
	Post-mastectomy Fantasy	223
	Passages from A Burst of Light	224
	Other Cultural Work of Interest to Disabled Dykes	229
	Contributors	237

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