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Claudia Malacrida - Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder - 9780802087522 - V9780802087522
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Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder

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Description for Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder hardcover. Drawing on both poststructural discourse analysis and feminist standpoint theory, Malacrida makes a critical contribution to qualitative methodologies by developing a feminist discursive ethnography of the construction of AD(H)D in two divergent cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK; JNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.

Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children's diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these decisions within an overriding climate of mother-blame. Claudia Malacrida's Cold Comfort provides a contextualized study of how mothers negotiate with/against the 'helping professions' over assessment and treatment for their AD(H)D children.

Malacrida counters current conceptions about mothers of AD(H)D children (namely that mothers irresponsibly push for Ritalin to manage their children's behaviour) as well as professional assumptions of maternal pathology. This thought-provoking examination ... Read more

Drawing on both poststructural discourse analysis and feminist standpoint theory, Malacrida makes a critical contribution to qualitative methodologies by developing a feminist discursive ethnography of the construction of AD(H)D in two divergent cultures. On a more personal level, she offers readers a moving, nuanced, and satisfying examination of real women and children facing both public and private challenges linked to AD(H)D.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802087522
SKU
V9780802087522
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About Claudia Malacrida
Claudia Malacrida is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge.

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