Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities

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Disabled Mothers: Stories and Scholarship By and About Mother with Disabilities is written by Gloria Filax and published by Demeter Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1927335795 (ISBN 10) and 9781927335796 (ISBN 13).

This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S., and Australia explores and analyzes 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.