Disability, the family, and society : listening to mothers /
Read, Janet, 1947-
Disability, the family, and society : listening to mothers / Janet Read. - x, 139 p. - Disability, human rights, and society . - Disability, human rights, and society. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A neglected minority: an overview of policy and research -- The UK policy context -- Literature and research: an overview -- Concluding comments -- Twelve West Midlands mothers -- The study -- The women and their circumstances -- On being a mother -- Mediation -- Consequences -- Concluding comments -- The things that mothers do -- Mothers, fathers, parents or families -- Caring at home -- Going out in public -- Mothers' perceptions of their children -- Involvement with service providers -- How mothers manage -- Concluding comments -- Theorizing motherhood, mothering and caring -- Introduction -- Images of mothers: points of view -- The legacy of psychoanalysis -- Mothers as reproducers of the dominant social order -- Motherhood, when different is good -- Mothers in their own right -- Understanding caring -- Concluding comments -- Living in a hostile context -- The development of theories of discrimination and oppression -- The question of impairment -- The question of diversity -- Dehumanization, devaluation and exclusion -- The oppressive dimensions of service provision -- Disabled people gaining ground -- Concluding comments -- Mediators and allies on the ground -- Mother blaming -- Mothers as allies on the ground -- Moving to the other side of the track -- The experience of mediation: hazards, dilemmas and positive achievements -- Concluding comments -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
0335203108 (pbk.) 0335203116
99031549
Parents of children with disabilities--Great Britain
Mothers--Great Britain
Children with disabilities--Social conditions--Great Britain
Children with disabilities--Services for--Great Britain
Children with disabilities--Family relationships.--Great Britain
Social advocacy--Great Britain
HQ759.913. / R38 2000
306.87430941
Disability, the family, and society : listening to mothers / Janet Read. - x, 139 p. - Disability, human rights, and society . - Disability, human rights, and society. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A neglected minority: an overview of policy and research -- The UK policy context -- Literature and research: an overview -- Concluding comments -- Twelve West Midlands mothers -- The study -- The women and their circumstances -- On being a mother -- Mediation -- Consequences -- Concluding comments -- The things that mothers do -- Mothers, fathers, parents or families -- Caring at home -- Going out in public -- Mothers' perceptions of their children -- Involvement with service providers -- How mothers manage -- Concluding comments -- Theorizing motherhood, mothering and caring -- Introduction -- Images of mothers: points of view -- The legacy of psychoanalysis -- Mothers as reproducers of the dominant social order -- Motherhood, when different is good -- Mothers in their own right -- Understanding caring -- Concluding comments -- Living in a hostile context -- The development of theories of discrimination and oppression -- The question of impairment -- The question of diversity -- Dehumanization, devaluation and exclusion -- The oppressive dimensions of service provision -- Disabled people gaining ground -- Concluding comments -- Mediators and allies on the ground -- Mother blaming -- Mothers as allies on the ground -- Moving to the other side of the track -- The experience of mediation: hazards, dilemmas and positive achievements -- Concluding comments -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
0335203108 (pbk.) 0335203116
99031549
Parents of children with disabilities--Great Britain
Mothers--Great Britain
Children with disabilities--Social conditions--Great Britain
Children with disabilities--Services for--Great Britain
Children with disabilities--Family relationships.--Great Britain
Social advocacy--Great Britain
HQ759.913. / R38 2000
306.87430941