Mary Grimley Mason

Taking Care

Lessons from Mothers with Disabilities

• Broschiertes Buch

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. This book will provide a significant model for all parents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 215g
• ISBN-13: 9780761859697
• ISBN-10: 0761859691
• Artikelnr.: 36125222

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