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Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge (Critical Perspectives on Disability)
Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson
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Description for Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge (Critical Perspectives on Disability)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lewiekci-Wilson, Cynthia; Cellio, Jen. Series: Critical Perspectives on Disability. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
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 The volume features twenty-one previously unpublished essays by new as well as established scholars and community activists.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 ... Read more
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 The volume features twenty-one previously unpublished essays by new as well as established scholars and community activists.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Critical Perspectives on Disability
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632849
SKU
V9780815632849
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Reviews for Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge (Critical Perspectives on Disability)
As a whole, the collection is accessible and straightforward; it could easily serve as a textbook for students new to disability studies (and rhetoric), even as it encourages those of us more familiar with the field to stretch our assumptions of what disability and disability studies can mean or entail. Readers outside of the academy will also find the book ... Read more