Disabled mothers : stories and scholarship by and about mothers with disabilities /

This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S., and Australia explores and analyses issues of parenting by mothers with a variety of physical and mental disabilities. The book delves into pregnancy, birth, adoption, child custody, discrimination, and disability pol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Taylor, Dena (Editor ), Filax, Gloria, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2014]
Temas:
Parents with disabilities.
Mothers.
Parenting.
Mothers
Parenting
Parents handicapés.
Mères.
Rôle parental.
mothers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Parents with disabilities
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor
  • "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 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
  • 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: misadventures & motherhood in the American courts / Ella Callow
  • Unruly mothers or unruly practices? Disabled mothers surviving oppresive state practices in Australia / Carolyn Frohmader, Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic
  • 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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