Disabled Mothers

2014 Family & Relationships

Author : Dena Taylor
Release : 2014
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 291/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Disabled Mothers written by Dena Taylor. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S., and Australia explores and analyses issues of parenting by mothers with a variety of physical and mental disabilities. The book delves into pregnancy, birth, adoption, child custody, discrimination, and disability politics. Noticing dominant ideas, meanings, and narratives about mothering and disability, as the contributors of this book do, exposes how the actual lives and experiences of mothers with disabilities are key to challenging cultural norms and therefore discrimination.

Disability, Mothers, and Organization

2012-08-06 Family & Relationships

Author : Melanie Panitch
Release : 2012-08-06
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Download or read book Disability, Mothers, and Organization written by Melanie Panitch. This book was released on 2012-08-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place their issues on a more public scale. In highlighting this under-examined movement, this book contributes to the scholarship on Disability Studies, Women's Students, Sociology, and Social Movement Studies.

Disability and Mothering

2011-09-14 Family & Relationships

Author : Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
Release : 2011-09-14
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Download or read book Disability and Mothering written by Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson. This book was released on 2011-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In their introduction, the editors survey the theoretical frameworks of feminism and disability studies, locating the points of overlap crucial to a study of disability and mothering. Organized in five sections, the book engages questions about reproductive technologies; diagnoses and cultural scripts; the ability to rewrite narratives of mothering and disability; political activism; and the tensions formed by the overlapping identities of race, class, nation, and disability. The essays speak to a broad audience—from undergraduate and graduate students in women’s studies and disability studies, to therapeutic and health care professionals, to anyone grappling with issues such as genetic testing and counseling, raising a child with a disability, or being disabled and contemplating starting a family.

Global Health Law and Policy

2023 Law

Author : Lawrence O. Gostin
Release : 2023
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Global Health Law and Policy written by Lawrence O. Gostin. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Globalization has unleashed new health threats, connecting societies in shared vulnerability to common challenges, including infectious disease, non-communicable disease, environmental pollution, injuries, and inequitable poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the cataclysmic health threats of a rapidly globalizing world and the limitations of domestic law and policy in addressing economic, social, and political determinants of health. No country acting on its own can stem major health hazards that go well beyond national borders. Where national laws cannot reach threats beyond national borders, global law is necessary to promote health and justice. If globalization has presented global challenges to disease prevention and health promotion, global health law offers the promise of bridging national boundaries to promote health and reduce health inequities"--

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