Constructing the (m)other
Author | : Priya Lalvani |
Publisher | : Disability Studies in Education |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
ISBN-10 | : 1433169738 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781433169731 |
Rating | : 4/5 (731 Downloads) |
Download or read book Constructing the (m)other written by Priya Lalvani and published by Disability Studies in Education. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing the (M)other is a collection of personal narratives about motherhood in the context of a society in which disability holds a stigmatized position. From multiple vantage points, these autoethnographies reveal how ableist beliefs about disability are institutionally upheld and reified. Collectively they seek to call attention to a patriarchal surveillance of mothering, challenge the trope of the good mother, and dismantle the constructed hierarchy of acceptable children. The stories contained in this volume are counter-narratives of resistance--they are the devices through which mothers push back. Rejecting notions of the otherness of their children, in these essays, mothers negotiate their identities and claim access to the category of normative motherhood. Readers are likely to experience dissonance, have their assumptions about disability challenged, and find their parameters of normalcy transformed.