Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of "Perfect" Babies
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-91788-9
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 08/15/2008
- Pages: 288
- Trim Size: 6 x 9
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Doing Everything Right: Choice, Control and Mother Blame Chapter 3: Diminished Motherhood Chapter 4: Mothers, Doctors and Developmental Delays: On Personhood
and the Emplotment of Children’s Lives Chapter 5: The Child as Giver: Mothers’ Critique of the Commodification of
Babies
Chapter 6: Mothers, Models, and Disability Rights Epilogue
Appendix: Profiles of Participants
Notes Selected Bibliography
Index
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