Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities

Download or read book Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities written by Gloria Filax and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and experiences of mothers with disabilities are key to challenging cultural norms and therefore discrimination.