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Author:   Susan L. Gabel ,  Scot Danforth ,  Priya Lalvani
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   22
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9781433169731

ISBN 10:   1433169738
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Linda Ware: Foreword: ""There was this mother, one mother…"" – Priya Lalvani: Introduction: Mother: The Story – Tammy Bachrach: Standard Deviation: Stigma, Surveillance, and the Good Mother Daughter – Bernadette Macartney: West Side Story (Down Under) – Erin McCloskey: Selves-Advocacy and the Meeting Space – Maria T. Timberlake: An Unexpected Journey with My Mother – Elizabeth A. Wheeler: Masculinity at the Orthopedic Preschool – LaChan V. Hannon: Mothering While Black: Shapeshifting Amid Ableism, Racism, and Autism – Elaine Gerber: Unbecoming Mother: Selected Notes on Miscarriage and Infertility – María Cioè-Peña/Laura Castro Santamaría: Bad Mother – Priya Lalvani: The Strange Case of the Two Journals: Ableism, Academia, and the Birth of a Child – Negar Irani/Negin Hosseini Goodrich: Becoming Anahita: A Persian Mother’s Pilgrimage to Autism Pride – Susan Baglieri: Mothering in the Panopticon – Monika Tiwari: Karma, Dogma, and the Perfect Child – Linnéa Franits: Mother Is Wise: How Disability Constructs Maternal Identity – Diane Linder Berman/David J. Connor: Typicality and the (Br)other – Carol Rogers-Shaw: Confessions of an Inept Supermom – Priya Lalvani: Epilogue: ""Tell Me About When I Was Born"": (Mostly) True Tales About How We Became a Family – Contributors.

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Priya Lalvani has curated a gift-a critical carnival of stories. In Constructing the (M)other we meet women weaving lives that blend joy and imagination, battling the ideological syrup of pity/grief/loss, seeking spaces for full recognition of complex, gorgeous, and sometimes struggling children, in a society drunk on fantasies of normal. Lalvani is a brilliant writer who holds together this book where soul-ful and truths-ful women across race/ethnicity/class/language/education/nations, and children with a sparkling range of abilities and needs, animate the pages. This volume is a mirror, a speak back, truth in a post-truth society, a protest, and a celebration. Grab a glass of wine and climb in. I promise you won't want to leave until 'you get to the most delicious epilogue, that lingers in every cell of my body'. -Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Gender/Women's Studies and Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY This stunning collection of mother narratives illuminates the intimate space where motherhood, disability, and society intersect. Lalvani has drawn together oft-untold stories from culturally diverse mothers of children with disabilities who share what it means to negotiate shifting and complex cultural constructions of motherhood outside the socially-defined ideal. Constructing the (M)other is a fresh and significant contribution to a disability studies perspective on mothers and children with disabilities and a must-read for all educators committed to meaningful parent-professional partnerships. -Jan Valle, City College of New York

Priya Lalvani has curated a gift-a critical carnival of stories. In Constructing the (M)other we meet women weaving lives that blend joy and imagination, battling the ideological syrup of pity/grief/loss, seeking spaces for full recognition of complex, gorgeous, and sometimes struggling children, in a society drunk on fantasies of normal. Lalvani is a brilliant writer who holds together this book where soul-ful and truths-ful women across race/ethnicity/class/language/education/nations, and children with a sparkling range of abilities and needs, animate the pages. This volume is a mirror, a speak back, truth in a post-truth society, a protest, and a celebration. Grab a glass of wine and climb in. I promise you won't want to leave until you get to the most delicious epilogue, that lingers in every cell of my body. -Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Gender/Women's Studies and Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY This stunning collection of mother narratives illuminates the intimate space where motherhood, disability, and society intersect. Lalvani has drawn together oft-untold stories from culturally diverse mothers of children with disabilities who share what it means to negotiate shifting and complex cultural constructions of motherhood outside the socially-defined ideal. Constructing the (M)other is a fresh and significant contribution to a disability studies perspective on mothers and children with disabilities and a must-read for all educators committed to meaningful parent-professional partnerships. -Jan Valle, Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Studies, City College of New York

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Priya Lalvani, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Montclair State University. She was the recipient of the Emerging Scholar in Disability Studies Award in 2015. Her work is published widely in journals including: Disability and Society, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Equity and Excellence in Education.

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