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Taking Care: Lessons from Mothers with Disabilities

Autor Mary Grimley Mason Cu Linda Long-Bellil
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 oct 2012
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761859697
ISBN-10: 0761859691
Pagini: 138
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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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

Recenzii

The twenty-six life stories of disabled mothers presented in this book are hopeful and sobering. ... As a society, we can and should do more to make this major life function-having and raising children-more accessible and provide more accommodations for people with disabilities. Doctors, nurses, and other health care givers must be better educated about living with disability-and they might as well start by reading this book.
. . . . Being a disabled mother is just like being a mother-the hardest and the best thing you've ever done. This book speaks volumes about the power of women's determination to take care of business with love, smarts, and help when you need it.
Here she presents the voices of twenty-five women, aged 30 to 75, who speak truth to the power of a society that often views the work of mothering as unsuitable for women with disabilities. . . . Eloquent and accessible, profound and practical, these life stories provide both historical context and a path forward for mothers with disabilities. . . . Taking Care is an enlightened, important, and highly readable book.
I can only imagine how much reassurance, support, and inspiration will come to disabled mothers and their families from these many testimonies. Those who provide care or make policy for disabled mothers and their families are given clear and specific advice about how to improve their practice and with it, their own intelligence and humanity.