Disability and mothering
Subtitle: liminal spaces of embodied knowledge
By: edited by Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Critical perspectives on disability; Critical perspectives on disability
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780815632849
Subjects: Women with disabilities; Motherhood; Psychology; Mothers; Mothers of children with disabilities; Children with disabilities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Healthy, accomplished, and attractive": visual representations of "fitness" in egg donors / Jen Cellio; title: Negotiating discourses of maternal responsibility, disability, and repregenics: the role of experimental knowledge / Felicity Boardman; title: Stalking Grendel's mother: biomedicine and the disciplining of the deviant body / Terri Beth Miller; title: Uneasy subjects: disability, feminism, and abortion / Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson; title: "What does it matter?": a meditation on the social positioning of disability and motherhood / Samantha Walsh; title: Reconceiving motherhood / Kristin Lindgren; title: Refusing diagnosis: Mother-daughter agency in confronting psychiatric rhetoric / Abby Wilkerson; title: Diagnosable: mothering at the threshold of disability / Julia Miele Rodas; title: Mothers as storytellers / Linnéa E. Franits; title: Sharing stories: motherhood, autism, and culture / Rachel Robertson; title: Nurturing the nurturer: reflections on an experience of breastfeeding, disability, and physical trauma / Heather Kuttai; title: Vulnerable subjects: motherhood and disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherríe Moraga / Suzanne Bost; title: From surrender to activism: the transformation of disability and mothering at Kew cottages, Australia / Corinne Manning; title: History examined: one women's story of disability and advocacy / Marilyn Dolmage; title: My mother's mental illness / Whitney Jones-Garcia; title: A Schizo-ly situated daughter: a mother's labor / Elizabeth Metcalf; title: Motherhood and activism in the dis/enabling context of war: the case of Cindy Sheehan / Abby M. Dubisar; title: The political is personal: Mothering at the intersection of acquired disability, gender, and race / Julie E. Maybee; title: "You gotta make Aztlán any way you can": Disability in Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and saints / Julie Avril Minich; title: Interesting postcolonial mothering and disability: a narrative of an Antiguan woman and her son / Denise Cordella Hughes-Tafen; title: Mothering, disability, and poverty: straddling borders, shifting boundaries, and everyday resistance / Shawn A. Cassiman