Disability, the family, and society : listening to mothers / Janet Read.
Material type: TextSeries: Disability, human rights, and societyPublisher: Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 2000Description: x, 139 pISBN:- 0335203108 (pbk.)
- 0335203116
- Parents of children with disabilities -- Great Britain
- Mothers -- Great Britain
- Children with disabilities -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
- Children with disabilities -- Services for -- Great Britain
- Children with disabilities -- Great Britain -- Family relationships
- Social advocacy -- Great Britain
- 306.87430941
- HQ759.913. R38 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. A neglected minority: an overview of policy and research -- The UK policy context -- Literature and research: an overview -- Concluding comments -- 2. Twelve West Midlands mothers -- The study -- The women and their circumstances -- On being a mother -- Mediation -- Consequences -- Concluding comments -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- 5. 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 -- 6. 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.
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