In store now! Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg
As part of disability pride month we’re highlighting some of our stock that highlights disabled voices.
This week we’re highlighting Joanne Limburg’s brilliant ‘Letters to My Weird Sisters: on Autism and Feminism.’ In the book Joanne writes to the other women throughout history who have been seen as different and deviant.
Order your copy today directly through October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get a commission on your purchase.
Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg
Hardback RRP £14.99
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.
Order your copy today directly from October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get commission on your purchase.
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