TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman,Victoria
TI  - A World Without Martha : : A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference 
SN  - 9780774880404
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - Purich Books, an imprint of UBC Press
KW  - Freeman, Martha Ann,
KW  - INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
KW  - DOWN SYNDROME
KW  - CHILDREN
KW  - SIBLINGS
KW  - INSTITUTIONALISATION
KW  - FAMILY INTERACTION
KW  - DEINSTITUTIONALISATION
KW  - NORMALISATION
KW  - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - BIOGRAPHY
KW  - CANADA
N1  - Author's note. - 1. baby. - 2. Conceptions. - 3. One on every street. - 4. Substitutions. - 5. The fairy hill. - 6. jesus loves me. - 7. Fair exchange. - 8. Progress and happiness. - 9. Revolutions. - 10. Normalization. - 11. Becoming human. - 12. Into the fire. - 13. Breakthroughs. - 14. Echoes. - 15. Crossing over. - 16. Ashes. - 17. Remembering. - 18. Not ending. - 19. Second chances.  - 20. How far you've come. - 21. Remember every name. - Postscript. - Acknowledgements. - A note on sources
N2  - "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. She writes too of her own journey to understand the policies and assumptions about disability that profoundly affected her entire family. Despite society’s long insistence that that only a “normal” life was worth living, changing attitudes to both disability and difference would eventually offer both sisters new possibilities for healing and self-discovery. A World Without Martha documents the collateral damage of institutionalization on families, as well as the ties, both traumatic and loving, that bind family members to one another over the course of a lifetime." - BOOK JACKET
ER  -