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

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Place / Publishing House:Syracuse, New York : : Syracuse University Press,, [2011]
2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Critical perspectives on disability
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of 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.