Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities
Title | Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities PDF eBook |
Author | Gloria Filax |
Publisher | Demeter Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2014-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1927335795 |
This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S., and Australia explores and analyzes 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.
Disabled Mothers
Title | Disabled Mothers PDF eBook |
Author | Dena Taylor |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9781927335291 |
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.
Disability, Mothers, and Organization
Title | Disability, Mothers, and Organization PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Panitch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2012-08-06 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1135903786 |
This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place their issues on a more public scale. In highlighting this under-examined movement, this book contributes to the scholarship on Disability Studies, Women's Students, Sociology, and Social Movement Studies.
Motherhood and Disability
Title | Motherhood and Disability PDF eBook |
Author | O. Prilleltensky |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2004-05-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230512763 |
This book explores the intersection between motherhood and physical disability. It is based on a study that focused on the lived experiences of women with physical disabilities, mothers and non-mothers. What meaning does motherhood have for these women? What is it like for them? What messages do they receive about themselves as women, with or without children? What barriers do they foresee and/or come across? These issues are explored from the vantage point of disabled women with and without children.
Global Health Law and Policy
Title | Global Health Law and Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence O. Gostin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 601 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0197687717 |
"Globalization has unleashed new health threats, connecting societies in shared vulnerability to common challenges, including infectious disease, non-communicable disease, environmental pollution, injuries, and inequitable poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the cataclysmic health threats of a rapidly globalizing world and the limitations of domestic law and policy in addressing economic, social, and political determinants of health. No country acting on its own can stem major health hazards that go well beyond national borders. Where national laws cannot reach threats beyond national borders, global law is necessary to promote health and justice. If globalization has presented global challenges to disease prevention and health promotion, global health law offers the promise of bridging national boundaries to promote health and reduce health inequities"--
Constructing the (m)other
Title | Constructing the (m)other PDF eBook |
Author | Priya Lalvani |
Publisher | Disability Studies in Education |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Children of parents with disabilities |
ISBN | 9781433169748 |
Constructing the (M)other is a collection of personal narratives about motherhood in the context of a society in which disability holds a stigmatized position. From multiple vantage points, these autoethnographies reveal how ableist beliefs about disability are institutionally upheld and reified. Collectively they seek to call attention to a patriarchal surveillance of mothering, challenge the trope of the good mother, and dismantle the constructed hierarchy of acceptable children. The stories contained in this volume are counter-narratives of resistance--they are the devices through which mothers push back. Rejecting notions of the otherness of their children, in these essays, mothers negotiate their identities and claim access to the category of normative motherhood. Readers are likely to experience dissonance, have their assumptions about disability challenged, and find their parameters of normalcy transformed.
The Question of David
Title | The Question of David PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Sherer Jacobson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 1999-02-01 |
Genre | Adoptive parents |
ISBN | 9781460999288 |
A touching, unique and beautiful account of a couple, both with cerebral palsy, who adopt a baby boy and raise him on their own