5/28/2023 0 Comments Christina crosby a body undoneShortly after her fiftieth birthday, the athletic Crosby-already a tenured professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut-embarked upon a bicycle ride that came to a sudden conclusion when a twig caught in the spokes of her front wheel. “Don’t believe it,” this memoirist exhorts us, because much of what she lives is “simply beyond belief.” Throughout her book, she combats the “happy idea that disability leads to profound insight or higher understanding,” which informs the “narrative arc that organizes so many stories about living with an incapacitated bodymind” (116). In truth, however, living with an impairment proves far more complicated than either of these formulas would have us believe, and Crosby isn’t afraid of saying so. Christina Crosby’s 2016 memoir A Body Undone: Living on After Great Pain (NYU Press) delves into the ideological chasm between those who argue that disability is something to be treated and those who maintain that it offers up a cache of valuable epistemological resources.
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