Mary Grimley Mason

Taking Care (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons from Mothers with Disabilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking Care, based on twenty-six interviews and other autobiographical narratives, challenges the negative stereotypes about mothers with disabilities. These women's stories tell of their successes despite the barriers they encounter from the society in which they live. Covering issues in the mothering cycle from pregnancy and birth to raising a child through adulthood, the mothers' experiences and strategies provide valuable information for other women with disabilities as well as for doctors and health and social service professionals. This book will provide a significant model for all parents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761859703
• Artikelnr.: 39256499

Autorenporträt

Mary Grimley Mason is a professor emerita of English at Emmanuel College and resident scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. She is the author of Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery and Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives. She lives in the Boston area.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Disability and the Role of Mothering
Chapter 1 Having a Child: From the Decision Through the Postpartum
Experience
Chapter 2 Care Giving and Mothers with Disabilities: The Early Years
Chapter 3 Meeting the Outside World
Chapter 4 Family Relationships and Community
Chapter 5 What Mothers With Disabilities Know
Chapter 6 Public Policy and Mothers with Disabilities by Linda Long-Bellil
Works Cited
Selected Bibliography