Research Catalog

Title

Disabled mothers : stories and scholarship by and about mothers with disabilities / edited by Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor.

Publication

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Filax, Gloria, 1951-
• Taylor, Dena
• Taylor, Dena, 1941-

Description

viii, 358 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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 politics. Noticing dominant ideas, meanings, and narratives about mothering and disability, as the contributors of this book do, exposes how the actual lives and experiences of mothers with disabilities are key to challenging cultural norms and therefore discrimination.

Subject

• Parents with disabilities
• Mothers
• Parenting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

9781927335291 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2014431783

OCLC

• 870269439
• SCSB-11195375

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library