Melanie Panitch

Disability, Mothers, and Organization

Accidental Activists

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book highlights women's role in the disability rights movement by exploring how mothers of disabled children are propelled into activist roles when they encounter policies and restrictions that interfere with their capacity to perform what they believe is expected of them to be good mothers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415998963
• ISBN-10: 0415998964
• Artikelnr.: 25427110

Autorenporträt

Melanie Panitch is Director of the School of Disability Studies and Co-Director of the Ryerson RBC Foundation Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education at Ryerson University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Accidental Activists and the Canadian Association for Community Living
2. Categories and Constructs: The Mothering Role and Activist Mothering 3.
Founding the Organization 4. The Activist Mothers 5. The Campaign to Close
Institutions 6. The Campaign to Secure Human Rights 7. Listening in Stereo
to Activist Mothers 8. The Imprint of Activist Mothers