Library Journal - starred review, January 2006
In this memoir, Linton (Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity) recounts her experiences as a disabled woman after a 1971 car accident that killed her husband and best friend and left her wheelchair-bound.
Linton takes readers through rehabilitation and the decades that followed, emphasizing her growing awareness of how the community of disabled people is "hidden" from mainstream society. She intertwines her story with those of disabled people who inspired her, such as Glenn, who showed her that dancing need not be restricted to those who
can walk. Her memoir culminates with her leaving her career as a professor of psychology in order to lecture and consult in the field of disability studies full time. Although at times the author's mixing of her own story with those of others can cause confusion, Linton successfully argues that disabled people should be mainstreamed into
all aspects of society, including classrooms, public transportation, housing and recreational activities-and disability activism.

DisabilityWorld January 2007 “The Women Weigh in: Memoirs from the Distaff Side of the Disability Movement”

Mouth Magazine (Vol 17, Sep-Dec 2006) “believes My Body Politic can help all of us locate the other 53 million of us [disabled people], to get on speaking terms.”

William Peace, in Ragged Edge Online, says Linton’s “metamorphosis from average citizen to disabled person to academic to political activist ... is deeply moving and exceptionally well-written.”

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World Wide Work, 2 January 2007 (published by the American Labor Education Center):
“New and worth noting”:
A must-read autobiography by a woman whose legs were paralyzed in a car accident on her way to an anti-war demonstration during the Vietnam War. Through her warmly engaging, honest, and often humorous account of her own life and the experiences of friends and colleagues, Linton increases the reader’s sensitivity to the obstacles people with disabilities face at work and in everyday life. She asks why their struggles for more equitable and inclusive social policies are often ignored by progressive activities who challenge other kinds of discrimination.