Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge / edited by Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical perspectives on disabilityPublisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815650805 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge.DDC classification:
  • 306.874/3087 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ759.913 .D57 2011eb
Online resources:
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 / Linnéa 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 Cherríe 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 Aztlán any way you can": Disability in Cherríe 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-339) and index.

"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 / Linnéa 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 Cherríe 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 Aztlán any way you can": Disability in Cherríe 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.

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