Price: $39.95
Page Count: 280
Publication Date: September 2027
ISBN: 78-1-77258-644-2
This volume provides insights relevant to the experiences of mothers with disabilities, mothers of children with disabilities, mothers with disabilities with children who have disabilities, and scholars of motherhood and disability, bravely engaging the overlapping, porous nature of these categories. The contributors’ considerations of intersectionality extend beyond most disability scholarship’s theoretical work to examine the lived experiences of diverse identities and backgrounds with rigorous analytical approaches. The wide variety of disability experiences and theoretical frameworks included is remarkable, encompassing invisible disabilities, chronic illness, limitations on mobility, neurodivergence, and many more experiences of disability always transcending conventional disciplinary categories. The result is a set of powerful arguments for the rejection of mediocre reforms in favor of transforming the political, social, and medical institutions and systems that impact us all
- Lizzie Chadbourne, MPH, Reproductive & Disability Justice Community Organizer, Public Health Researcher, & Abortion Doula
Acknowledments
Introduction
Heather Jackson & Lindsey Campbell
Part I: Lived Experiences of Disability and Motherhood through Personal Narratives and Art
Chapter 1
Light and shade
Josie Crawley
Chapter 2
Still COVIDing
Elizabeth O'Reilly
Chapter 3
Are You a Good Mother? – Mutuality and Disability
Amanda Jackson
Chapter 4
Disability Feminist Justice through mutual aid and community parenting gives disabled moms the ability to live and thrive
Heather Jackson
Chapter 5
“Pumping” from exhibit, Deaf Brown American Mom
Fran C Flaherty
Chapter 6
Dehumanized and Trapped: Disabled Moms and Domestic Violence
Debra Guckenheimer
Chapter 7
The critical need to understand neurodivergent mothers: Dismantling the stereotype of the ‘bad mother’
Euphemia Bonnitcha
Chapter 8
Untitled
Summer Braddock
Chapter 9
My Mother, My Daughter and Me
Emma Pivato
Chapter 10
Lost in Motherhood
Dyana DeCoteau-Dyess
Part II: Disability Justice, Feminism, and Intersectionality and Disabilities
Chapter 11
Counter-Narratives of Disability: Anti-Black Racism, Ableism, and Motherhood in Higher Education
Prilly Bicknell-Hersco
Chapter 12
Being the “Good” Mother: Intensive Mothering, Identity, and Well-Being among Mothers of Children with a Disability
Gabrielle Decosta & Kathryn E. Frazier
Chapter 13
Prenatal Dance Fitness and the Conflation of Pregnancy, Fatness, and Disability
Johanna Kirk
Chapter 14
Held But Not Kept
Dyana DeCoteau-Dyess
Chapter 15
Entering the Worlds of How Mothers Make Sense of ‘Diagnosis’ within the Context of their Child with a Rare or Undiagnosed Neurodevelopmental Condition in Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Beth Milofsky
Chapter 16
From Invisibility to Visibility: Mothering With Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder
Giuseppina Iacono Lobo
Part III: Literary Interpretations, Outcomes, and the Future
Chapter 17
still from “Emerging From The Raging Seas”
Jenny-Joanna Bartholomew-Biggs
Chapter 18
They're all of me, but who's voice do I listen to
Dyana DeCoteau-Dyess
Chapter 19
"Going with the Flow": A Familial and Cultural Perspective on the Reproduction of Visually-impaired Women in China
Natalie Jinna He and Cong Cai
Chapter 20
Toxic Pollyanna: intergenerational disavowal of disability and its related traumas
Bridie Macgillicuddy
Chapter 21
“The Heart of the House”:
Disability and Motherhood in Susan Coolidge’s What Katy Did
György Kiss
Notes on Contributors
Heather Jackson (she/her) is a former teen, single, & poor mother, now a 40-something disabled, queer, and neurodivergent mother of a 20-something adult. She lives in Western Maryland, USA and runs a private practice as a mental health counselor (and is licensed in multiple states), and also works as an abortion doula. She has been published in a variety of formats including books, journals, zines, and websites. She loves bike riding, foraging, reading, making zines (etsy shop: ramonegirl), tending her plants, and making music. She’s also involved in organizing around abortion liberation, anti-ICE work, and creating local, radical community
and mutual aid.
Lindsey Campbell is a former Girl-Mom, neurodivergent, invisibly-disabled mama now in her 40s. She has a BA with a double major in Film and Gender (Women’s) Studies, an MA in Film and Moving Image Studies, and an MLIS. She created the play The Girl-Mom Project. Her work has been published in Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines, Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families In Social Justice Movements and Communities, The Association for Research on Mothering Journal, Places Like Home, and in several small publications including Hip Mama Magazine, Mutha Magazine, Mothering Magazine. Lindsey hosted and produced the podcast This Manic Mama (2011-2013) and co-hosted In the Motherhood on Montreal’s CKUT (2012-2014), she currently contributes to Moving Radio on CJSR. She is a professional movie watcher with a forth-coming bipolar memoir.
