Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 348 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Critical perspectives on disability Critical perspectives on disability.
Subject:	Mothers of children with disabilities. Children with disabilities. Women with disabilities. Mothers -- Psychology. Motherhood. Mothers -- psychology. Disabled Children. Disabled Persons. Feminism. Maternal Behavior -- psychology. Children with disabilities. Motherhood. Mothers of children with disabilities. Mothers -- Psychology. Women with disabilities. Essays. Electronic books. Essays.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121218

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Other authors / contributors:	Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia. Cellio, Jen.
ISBN:	9780815650805 0815650809 9780815632849 0815632843
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-339) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word "liminal" calls attention to the book's focus on the transitional moments and spaces where the personal and social, inside and outside, self and other converge. The volume features twenty-one previously unpublished essays by new as well as established scholars and community activists. Contributors, some of whom are themselves disabled or mothers of children with disabilities, present moving personal accounts and accessible scholarship grounded in historical study, experiential and retrospective analysis, interviews, social research, and feminist and disability studies theories.
Other form:	Print version: Disability and mothering. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011 9780815632849
Standard no.:	ebc3410166

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Lewiecki-Wilson (English and women's studies, Miami Univ., Ohio) and Cellio (English, Northern Kentucky Univ.) have put together a book that examines societal and cultural perceptions of mothering and disability. They posit that the status of both is permeable and flexible and hence constitute "liminal" or threshold spaces of embodied knowledge. The 21 thought-provoking essays encompass various cultural-experiential perspectives on the nexus between mothering and disability. Some of the contributors offer enlightening first-person narratives, and others write more scholarly pieces. The overarching theme is strategic resistance to perceived negative stereotypes revolving around both mothering and disability. The text is well written and extremely readable. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. D. J. Winchester Yeshiva University

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Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge /

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