Can I read Sitting Pretty : The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body on EtoBox?

Sitting Pretty : The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sitting Pretty : The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body about?

A memoir-in-essays from Rebekah Taussig, disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty, reflecting on identity, accessibility, and representation and processing a lifetime of memories to paint a more beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Rebekah Taussig has been paralyzed for as long as she can remember but didn't begin to unpack it until she was in her mid-twenties working on a PhD in disability studies. She began writing mini-essays about what it means to live as a disabled woman and exploring the limited ways we typically see disability: something monstrous (the Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). She longed for stories that reflected her experiences—stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Sitting Pretty offers an honest look at disability and its effects on...

Author

Rebekah Taussig

Publisher

HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062936813

Subjects

Sociology, History, Biography

Rating

4.7 / 5 (485 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14