Constructing the (M)other
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Constructing the (M)other

Narratives of Disability, Motherhood, and the Politics of «Normal»

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Constructing the (M)other

Narratives of Disability, Motherhood, and the Politics of «Normal»

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Foreword: “There was this mother, one mother
” (Linda Ware)
  6. Introduction: Mother: The Story (Priya Lalvani)
  7. Chapter One: Standard Deviation: Stigma, Surveillance, and the Good Mother Daughter (Tammy Bachrach)
  8. Chapter Two: West Side Story (Down Under) (Bernadette Macartney)
  9. Chapter Three: Selves-Advocacy and the Meeting Space (Erin McCloskey)
  10. Chapter Four: An Unexpected Journey with My Mother (Maria T. Timberlake)
  11. Chapter Five: Masculinity at the Orthopedic Preschool (Elizabeth A. Wheeler)
  12. Chapter Six: Mothering While Black: Shapeshifting Amid Ableism, Racism, and Autism (LaChan V. Hannon)
  13. Chapter Seven: Unbecoming Mother: Selected Notes on Miscarriage and Infertility (Elaine Gerber)
  14. Chapter Eight: Bad Mother (María CioÚ-Peña / Laura Castro Santamaría)
  15. Chapter Nine: The Strange Case of the Two Journals: Ableism, Academia, and the Birth of a Child (Priya Lalvani)
  16. Chapter Ten: Becoming Anahita: A Persian Mother’s Pilgrimage to Autism Pride (Negar Irani / Negin Hosseini Goodrich)
  17. Chapter Eleven: Mothering in the Panopticon (Susan Baglieri)
  18. Chapter Twelve: Karma, Dogma, and the Perfect Child (Monika Tiwari)
  19. Chapter Thirteen: Mother Is Wise: How Disability Constructs Maternal Identity (Linnéa Franits)
  20. Chapter Fourteen: Typicality and the (Br)other (Diane Linder Berman / David J. Connor)
  21. Chapter Fifteen: Confessions of an Inept Supermom (Carol Rogers-Shaw)
  22. Epilogue: “Tell Me About When I Was Born”: (Mostly) True Tales About How We Became a Family (Priya Lalvani)
  23. Contributors