Reconstructing motherhood and disability in the age of "perfect" babies / Gail Heidi Landsman.
- Landsman, Gail H., 1951-
- Date:
- 2009
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York ; London : Routledge, 2009.
Physical description
xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-264) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Doing everything right: choice, control and mother blame -- Diminished motherhood -- Mothers, doctors and developmental delays: on personhood and the emplotment of children's lives -- The child as giver: mothers' critique of the commodification of babies -- On mothering, models, and disability rights -- Epilogue.
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Location Status History of MedicineUVH /LANOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780415917889
- 0415917883
- 9780415917896
- 0415917891
- 9780203891902
- 0203891902