A Voice Unheard

The Latimer Case and People with Disabilities

by Ruth Enns  

This book shows the positive options for Canadians with disabilities. It features parents, able-bodied and disabled, who see potential where others see only dark despair.

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  • December 1998
  • ISBN: 9781552660140
  • 176 pages
  • $30.00
  • For sale worldwide

About the book

Tracy Latimer could not speak, however, her life was much more than Canadians have been led to believe and her voice has been overlooked in the debate over whether her father received justice.

Tracy’s was not the only unheard voice. Disability is severely stigmatized in Canada. One of the manifestations of that stigma is the selective deafness of the able-bodied population on issues of vital importance to citizens with disabilities.

A Voice Unheard shows the positive options for Canadians with disabilities. It features parents, able-bodied and disabled, who see potential where others see only dark despair. It shows how the majority of people with disabilities know that death was not Tracy Latimer’s only option. Their voices are valid in the debate about Robert Latimer and disability and must be heard.

Ruth Enns understands the struggle for disability rights in Canada. She speaks from her own experiences with disability resulting from polio and glaucoma. Ruth has been a freelance writer for many years. She lives in rural Manitoba.

The cover image was created by Alexandra Michaels. Limited in her motor functions, as a result of cerebral palsy, she creates unique designs on her 1969 electric typewriter, with its black and red, reel-to-reel ribbon, to convey an intimate expression of her personal experiences.

Crime & Law Disability Studies Health & Illness

Author

Ruth Enns

Ruth Enns grew up in a farming village in Manitoba. As th middle child of a farm couple who raised primarily grain, she is well acquainted with Canadian rural prairie life.

She got hr B.A. and B. Ed. from the University of Manitoba and spent eight years teaching in rural schools. Shortly after her marriage in 1981, illness forced her out of the profession so she turned to freelance writing after studying Creative Communications at Red River Community College.

Ms. Enns acquired a sensitivity to th Canadian disability rights movement through her own experiences with disability resulting from polio and glaucoma. She was also briefly involved in the early development of the Manitoba League of the Physically Handicapped, now the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities, although since the seventies she has not been involved with any of these organizations.

Since 1983 she and her husband have lived in rural Manitoba.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Tracy on Trial
  • The Media Trial
  • Coming Out of the Attic: A Brief History of Disabled People’s Activism
  • Living with Disability
  • Caring for a Disabled Child
  • Another Look
  • Appendix
  • Glossary of Disability Organization Acronyms
  • References
  • Interviews

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