Reconstructing motherhood and disability in the age of perfect babies
By: by Gail Landsman.
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415917889; 9780415917896; 9780203891902
Subjects: Parents of children with disabilities; Mothers -- Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Doing everything right: choice, control and mother blame; title: Diminished motherhood; title: Mothers, doctors and developmental delays: on personhood and the emplotment of children's lives; title: The child as giver: mothers' critique of the commodification of babies; title: Mothers, models, and disability rights; title: Epilogue.