Letters To My Weird Sisters

On Autism and Feminism

Letters To My Weird Sisters
Joanne Limburg
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1 Jul 2021 UK
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9781838950057
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It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider. Eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time, she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four ' weird sisters' from history, addressing topics including autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the appalling punishments that have been meted out over centuries to those deemed to fall short of the norm. This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanises women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by ' weird sisters' everywhere.
Joanne Limburg is the author of two memoirs (The Woman Who Thought Too Much and Small Pieces), one novel (A Want of Kindness) and three collections of poetry: Feminismo, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, Paraphernalia, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and The Autistic Alice. Her children' s poetry collection, Bookside Down, was runner-up for the CLiPPA Poetry Award. She lectures at Cambridge University' s Institute of Continuing Education and lives in Cambridge with her husband and son.
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ISBN-13: 9781838950057
Published: 1 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Pages: 272

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