Reconstructing Motherhood And Disability In The Age Of Perfect Babies

Author : Gail Landsman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135963770
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of Perfect Babies written by Gail Landsman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.

Author : Gail Landsman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135963789
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of Perfect Babies written by Gail Landsman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.

Author : O. Prilleltensky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230512763
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherhood and Disability written by O. Prilleltensky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection between motherhood and physical disability. It is based on a study that focused on the lived experiences of women with physical disabilities, mothers and non-mothers. What meaning does motherhood have for these women? What is it like for them? What messages do they receive about themselves as women, with or without children? What barriers do they foresee and/or come across? These issues are explored from the vantage point of disabled women with and without children.

Author : Linda M. Blum
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479871540
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising Generation Rx written by Linda M. Blum and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 22 percent of American children today have some form of disability. In this highly important book, Linda Blum plunges us into the world of their worried mothers, deciphering labels and pills, fending off stigma, tirelessly advocating for their children. Married or alone, affluent or poor, such mothers often feel blamed and too rarely in the presence of real help. A carefully researched and deeply sensitive portrait of mothers on the Rx frontier.

Author : Ivor Goodson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317665716
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History written by Ivor Goodson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been a substantial turn towards narrative and life history study. The embrace of narrative and life history work has accompanied the move to postmodernism and post-structuralism across a wide range of disciplines: sociological studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social history; literary theory; and, most recently, psychology. Written by leading international scholars from the main contributing perspectives and disciplines, The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History seeks to capture the range and scope as well as the considerable complexity of the field of narrative study and life history work by situating these fields of study within the historical and contemporary context. Topics covered include: • The historical emergences of life history and narrative study • Techniques for conducting life history and narrative study • Identity and politics • Generational history • Social and psycho-social approaches to narrative history With chapters from expert contributors, this volume will prove a comprehensive and authoritative resource to students, researchers and educators interested in narrative theory, analysis and interpretation.

Author : Ronald J. Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317150333
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability and Qualitative Inquiry written by Ronald J. Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz introduce readers to a range of issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by bringing together a collection of scholarly work that supplements their own contributions and covers a variety of qualitative methods: participant observation, interviewing and interview coding, focus groups, autoethnography, life history, narrative analysis, content analysis, and participatory visual methods. The chapters are framed in terms of the relevant methodological issues involved in the research, bringing in substantive findings to illustrate the fruits of the methods. In doing so, the book covers a range of physical, sensory, and cognitive impairments. This work resonates with themes in disability studies such as emancipatory research, which views research as a collaborative effort with research subjects whose lives are enhanced by the process and results of the work. It is a methodological approach that requires researchers to be on guard against exploiting informants for the purpose of professional aggrandizement and to engage in a process of ongoing self-reflection to clear themselves of personal and professional biases that may interfere with their ability to hear and empathize with others.

Author : Stefan Timmermans
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627361X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Babies? written by Stefan Timmermans and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: the consequences of newborn screening -- The expansion of newborn screening -- Patients-in-waiting -- Shifting disease ontologies -- Is my baby normal? -- The limits of prevention -- Does expanded newborn screening save lives? -- Conclusion: the future of expanded newborn screening

Author : Nancy A. Naples
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119315131
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Companion to Women's and Gender Studies written by Nancy A. Naples and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, featuring original contributions from leading experts from around the world The Companion to Women's and Gender Studies is a comprehensive resource for students and scholars alike, exploring the central concepts, theories, themes, debates, and events in this dynamic field. Contributions from leading scholars and researchers cover a wide range of topics while providing diverse international, postcolonial, intersectional, and interdisciplinary insights. In-depth yet accessible chapters discuss the social construction and reproduction of gender and inequalities in various cultural, social-economic, and political contexts. Thematically-organized chapters explore the development of Women's and Gender Studies as an academic discipline, changes in the field, research directions, and significant scholarship in specific, interrelated disciplines such as science, health, psychology, and economics. Original essays offer fresh perspectives on the mechanisms by which gender intersects with other systems of power and privilege, the relation of androcentric approaches to science and gender bias in research, how feminist activists use media to challenge misrepresentations and inequalities, disparity between men and women in the labor market, how social movements continue to change Women's and Gender Studies, and more. Filling a significant gap in contemporary literature in the field, this volume: Features a broad interdisciplinary and international range of essays Engages with both individual and collective approaches to agency and resistance Addresses topics of intense current interest and debate such as transgender movements, gender-based violence, and gender discrimination policy Includes an overview of shifts in naming, theoretical approaches, and central topics in contemporary Women's and Gender Studies Companion to Women's and Gender Studies is an ideal text for instructors teaching courses in gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, or related disciplines such as psychology, history, education, political science, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as practitioners and policy makers working on issues related to gender and sexuality.

Author : Sara E. Green
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839091436
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Narratives of Disability written by Sara E. Green and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to answer the call for richer, more diverse understandings of disability through questions about narrative frameworks in disability research.Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form in social life that is both cultural and personal.

Author : Gareth M. Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317338219
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics written by Gareth M. Thomas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the UK and beyond, Down’s syndrome screening has become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does screening persist, particularly in light of research that highlights pregnant women’s ambivalent and problematic experiences with it? Drawing on an ethnography of Down’s syndrome screening in two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why we are so invested in this practice and what effects this has on those involved. Informed by theoretical approaches that privilege the mundane and micro practices, discourses, materials, and rituals of everyday life, Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics describes the banal world of the clinic and, in particular, the professionals contained within it who are responsible for delivering this programme. In so doing, it illustrates how Down’s syndrome screening is ‘downgraded’ and subsequently stabilised as a ‘routine’ part of a pregnancy. Further, the book captures how this routinisation is deepened by a systematic, but subtle, framing of Down’s syndrome as a negative pregnancy outcome. By unpacking the complex relationships between professionals, parents, technology, policy, and clinical practice, Thomas identifies how and why screening is successfully routinised and how it is embroiled in both new and familiar debates surrounding pregnancy, ethics, choice, diagnosis, care, disability, and parenthood. The book will appeal to academics, students, and professionals interested in medical sociology, medical anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), bioethics, genetics, and/or disability studies.