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Disability, the family, and society : listening to mothers / Janet Read.
Van Pelt Library HQ759.913 .R38 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Read, Janet, 1947-
- Series:
- Disability, human rights, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parents of children with disabilities--Great Britain.
- Parents of children with disabilities.
- Mothers--Great Britain.
- Mothers.
- Children with disabilities--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Children with disabilities.
- Children with disabilities--Services for--Great Britain.
- Children with disabilities--Services for.
- Social advocacy.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Children with disabilities--Family relationships--Great Britain.
- Children with disabilities--Family relationships.
- Social advocacy--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 139 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Circumstances dictate that many mothers play a central role in the upbringing of their disabled children. Mothers and children often find themselves involved in an unusually intimate and protracted relationship. This book explores mothers' perspectives about the ways that they find themselves acting as mediators between their children and a world that can be hostile to their interests. It takes as its starting point a study in which mothers from diverse backgrounds detail the ways in which they attempt to represent their children to the world, and the world to their children in both formal and informal interactions. They describe challenging discussions with children and other family members as well as battles and negotiations elsewhere. Their particular experiences and perspectives are linked to wider research and theory on motherhood and caring, the life patterns of disabled children and their families, and the discrimination faced by disabled children and adults.
- Contents:
- 1 A neglected minority: an overview of policy and research 5
- The UK policy context 5
- Literature and research: an overview 9
- 2 Twelve West Midlands mothers 15
- The women and their circumstances 18
- On being a mother 20
- Mediation 26
- Consequences 48
- 3 The things that mothers do 51
- Mothers, fathers, parents or families 52
- Caring at home 54
- Going out in public 58
- Mothers' perceptions of their children 59
- Involvement with service providers 61
- How mothers manage 67
- 4 Theorizing motherhood, mothering and caring 69
- Images of mothers: points of view 70
- The legacy of psychoanalysis 71
- Mothers as reproducers of the dominant social order 75
- Motherhood, when different is good 79
- Mothers in their own right 80
- Understanding caring 84
- 5 Living in a hostile context 89
- The development of theories of discrimination and oppression 91
- The question of impairment 94
- The question of diversity 97
- Dehumanization, devaluation and exclusion 98
- The oppressive dimensions of service provision 103
- Disabled people gaining ground 105
- 6 Mediators and allies on the ground 107
- Mother blaming 108
- Mothers as allies on the ground 110
- Moving to the other side of the track 115
- The experience of mediation: hazards, dilemmas and positive achievements 118.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [123]-133) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0335203116
- 0335203108
- OCLC:
- 41404625
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