Beyond the Prosthetic: One Athlete's Reckoning with Disability and Desire A Paralympic champion's memoir of redefining the body, reclaiming identity, and what disability really means
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
18.12.2025
Verlag
EpubliSeitenzahl
184
Maße (L/B/H)
29.7/21/1.1 cm
Gewicht
570 g
Auflage
2
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-565-13404-5
This is the unflinching memoir of a British Paralympic athlete whose journey defies the sanitized "triumph over tragedy" narrative that dominates disability storytelling. Yes, she trained relentlessly. Yes, she competed at elite levels. But the real story—the one rarely told—is about learning to live in a body that didn't match the cultural image of an athlete, navigating medical professionals who treated her disability as problem to solve rather than identity to honor, and confronting the deep internalized ableism that whispered she was "inspiring" precisely because she was disabled.
Through visceral training scenes, unflinching conversations with other disabled athletes, and moments of raw vulnerability, the narrator exposes the gap between external achievement and internal struggle. She explores the parasport world's peculiar dynamics—where disability becomes spectacle, where her body is simultaneously hyper-visible and entirely dehumanized, where she's simultaneously celebrated and pitied. She confronts body image trauma inherited from able-bodied beauty standards, the pressure to perform inspiration rather than pursue excellence, and the complicated grief of reimagining physical identity.
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