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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations. |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on disability
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-339) and index. |
| Contents |
"Healthy, accomplished, and attractive": visual representations of "fitness" in egg donors / Jen Cellio -- Negotiating discourses of maternal responsibility, disability, and repregenics: the role of experimental knowledge / Felicity Boardman -- Stalking Grendel's mother: biomedicine and the disciplining of the deviant body / Terri Beth Miller -- Uneasy subjects: disability, feminism, and abortion / Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson -- "What does it matter?": a meditation on the social positioning of disability and motherhood / Samantha Walsh -- Reconceiving motherhood / Kristin Lindgren -- Refusing diagnosis: Mother-daughter agency in confronting psychiatric rhetoric / Abby Wilkerson -- Diagnosable: mothering at the threshold of disability / Julia Miele Rodas -- Mothers as storytellers / Linnea E. Franits -- Sharing stories: motherhood, autism, and culture / Rachel Robertson -- Nurturing the nurturer: reflections on an experience of breastfeeding, disability, and physical trauma / Heather Kuttai -- Vulnerable subjects: motherhood and disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherrie Moraga / Suzanne Bost -- From surrender to activism: the transformation of disability and mothering at Kew cottages, Australia / Corinne Manning -- History examined: one women's story of disability and advocacy / Marilyn Dolmage -- My mother's mental illness / Whitney Jones-Garcia -- A Schizo-ly situated daughter: a mother's labor / Elizabeth Metcalf -- Motherhood and activism in the dis/enabling context of war: the case of Cindy Sheehan / Abby M. Dubisar -- The political is personal: Mothering at the intersection of acquired disability, gender, and race / Julie E. Maybee -- "You gotta make Aztlan any way you can": Disability in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes and saints / Julie Avril Minich -- Interesting postcolonial mothering and disability: a narrative of an Antiguan woman and her son / Denise Cordella Hughes-Tafen -- Mothering, disability, and poverty: straddling borders, shifting boundaries, and everyday resistance / Shawn A. Cassiman. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Mothers of children with disabilities.
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Children with disabilities.
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Women with disabilities.
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Mothers -- Psychology.
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Motherhood.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia.
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Cellio, Jen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2011] xvi, 348 pages ; 24 cm. Critical perspectives on disability 9780815632849 (OCoLC)ocn713189590 (DLC)10835934 |
| ISBN |
9780815632849 (alk. paper) |
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0815632843 (alk. paper) |
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9780815650805 (electronic bk.) |
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