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  1. Take up thy bed and walk
    death, disability and cure in classic fiction for girls
    Author: Keith, Lois
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

    Heidi, The Secret Garden, and Pollyanna are all classic "girls' books," featuring a miracle cure of an invalid character who literally gets up and walks away from illness or paralysis. Such stories were common in Victorian novels and they implicitly... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Heidi, The Secret Garden, and Pollyanna are all classic "girls' books," featuring a miracle cure of an invalid character who literally gets up and walks away from illness or paralysis. Such stories were common in Victorian novels and they implicitly conveyed the idea that disability and physical suffering were punishment for wrongdoing: unruly girls could not enter womanhood unless they were tamed, and an accident was the perfect plot device for this transformation. Other characters, like Helen Burns in Jane Eyre or Beth in Little Women, were just too good to live, and died so that another character could be redeemed by their example. Lois Keith points out in this study that the temptation to either cure or kill off disabled characters has surprising tenacity. The widespread belief that a disabled life isn't a full life and that patients can cure themselves through force of will endures to the present day. In Take Up Thy Bed & Walk, Lois Keith brings her lively and observant eye to the classic books of childhood from Jane Eyre, Heidi, and Pollyanna, to modern American classics such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie and Judy Blume's Deenie. Keith explores the recurring images of impairment and ill health in literature and asks the reader to reconsider the messages they send to a devoted young audience. This book is also a testament to the singular passion with which these books are read by younger readers and reminds us of the intensity of our own reading experience as children.

     
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  2. The impact of child SSI enrollment on household outcomes
    evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
    Author: Duggan, Mark G.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass.

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Series: NBER working paper series ; 11568
    Subjects: Behinderte; Kinder; Öffentliche Sozialleistungen; Haushaltseinkommen; USA; Child Welfare; Children with disabilities; Disabled Children; Insurance Benefits; Social Security; Supplemental security income program
    Scope: 32, [12] S, graph. Darst
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    Internetausg.: papers.nber.org/papers/w11568.pdf - lizenzpflichtig