Patty Douglas

Unmothering Autism

Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care

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Produktbeschreibung

Unmothering Autism rethinks autism and mothering to reveal what it means for us to live well together in, and through, difference.

Produktdetails

• Disability Culture and Politics
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780774869737
• ISBN-10: 0774869739
• Artikelnr.: 73328723

Autorenporträt

Patty Douglas

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Toward Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care
Part 1: Disrupting Autism Mothers
1 Disruption as a Place to Begin
Part 2: Pursuing Autism Mothers
2 Autism's Refrigerator Mothers: The Psychoanalytic Gaze
3 Returning the Psychoanalytic Gaze
4 Autism's Mother Therapists: Behaviourism's Gaze
5 Retraining Behaviourism
6 Autism's Warrior Mothers: The Genomic Gaze
7 Resisting Genomics and War
Part 3: Reimagining Mothering, Autism, and Care
8 (M)others Speak Back: Affirming Autism and Care
Conclusion: Is Neurodiversity's Mother Next?
Notes; Works Cited; Index