Price: $34.95
Page Count: 368
Publication Date: March 2014
ISBN: 978-1-927335-29-1
“Disabled Mothers brings together disability studies’ perspectives and the lived experiences of mothering and being mothered. It gives life to issues of body, state control, freedom, racism, sexism, and the familial networks of care and belonging in new and radically accessible ways. Disabled Mothers is essential reading for those who want to open their imaginations to the various ways the life of disability and that of mothering engage us, touch us, and make us re-think what we thought we knew about maternal relations and embodiment.”
—TANYA TITCHKOSKY, OISE of the University of Toronto, Author of Disability, Self and Society
“The strength of this collection is the breadth and scope of the coverage on the subject of mothers with disabilities. Alternating between research studies and personal essays, this book provides important information and readability.”
—MARY GRIMLEY MASON, PhD Professor of English emerita Resident Scholar, Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research
Introduction
Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor
Considering Motherhood
“Where Do Babies Come From?”: Meeting Joanne and Kyle: a Reflection on Mothering, Disability and Identity
Samantha Walsh
Scrutinizing and Resisting Oppressive Assumptions about Disabled Parents
Christina Minaki
Mothering with Disabilities
Mothering in Silence: Historical Perspectives on Deafness, Marriage, and Motherhood
R.A.R. Edwards
It’s a Miracle
Katharine Hayward
Use of Aids and Adaptations in Childcare for Mothers with Spinal Cord Injury
Anita Kaiser, Kathryn Boschen and Denise Reid
Embodying my Passions: Becoming a Radical Feminist Mother
Michelle Tichy
Mothers with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Need for Long Term Sustained Services
Karen Nielsen and Ann Marie Dewhurst
Sybil
Meredith Powell
Disabling Mothers: Constructing a Postpartum Depression
Lynda R. Ross
My Daughter, My Selves? Motherhood, Multiplicity, and the Creation of Meaning
Kristina Passman Nielson
Ideal Motherhood and Surveillance: Young Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities Share Their Stories
Amanda Malone
Mothers with Multiple Social “Stigmas”
Centering the Broken, Brown Body: Reflections on Disability, Race and Motherhoods
Seema Bahl
Motherhood Experiences of Racialized Disabled Women
Bahja Nassir
Non-existent & Struggling for Identity
Vicky D’Aoust
Disabled Mothers and the Judicial System
Disabled Mothers: Misadventures & Motherhood in the American Courts
Ella Callow
Unruly Mothers or Unruly Practices? Disabled Mothers Surviving Oppressive State Practices in Australia
Carolyn Frohmader, Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic
The Child’s Perspective
Disabled Mothers: Perspectives of Their Young Adult Children
Paul Preston and Jean Jacob
Learning How to Swim: Finding Meaning in Disability from a Daughter’s Perspective
Gina Blankenship
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