Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship by and about Mother with Disabilities

by Dena Taylor

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927335299
• ISBN13: 9781927335291
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Demeter Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.