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Taking care : lessons from mothers with disabilities / Mary Grimley Mason, Linda Long-Bellil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mason, Mary Grimley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women with disabilities.
- Mother and child--Health aspects.
- Mother and child.
- Disability awareness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Lessons from mothers with disabilities
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Having a Child; 2 Care Giving and Mothers with Disabilities; 3 Meeting the Outside World; 4 Family Relationships and Community; 5 What Mothers with Disabilities Know; 6 Public Policy and Mothers with Disabilities; Works Cited; Selected Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-8459-9
- 0-7618-5970-5
- OCLC:
- 854521174
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