Unexpected : : Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome /

Unexpected : : Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome / / Alison Piepmeier.

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What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choicesWhen Alison Piepmeier—scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome—died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about mothe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
VerfasserIn:
Piepmeier, Alison,
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Rachel,
Estreich, George,
McGee, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 2 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. “I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could”: Disability as a Form of Human Diversity
  • 2. The Inadequacy of “Choice”: Disability, Feminism, and Reproduction
  • 3. The Welcome Table
  • 4. Saints, Sages, and Victims: Down Syndrome and Parental Narrative
  • 5. Accessible Words: Alison Piepmeier and the Boundaries of Disability
  • 6. Six Questions on the Special, the Inclusive, and the Universal
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About Alison Piepmeier
  • About George Estreich and Rachel Adams

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