Patty Douglas

Unmothering Autism

Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care

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Produktbeschreibung

Unmothering Autism rethinks autism and mothering to reveal what it means for us to live well together in, and through, difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780774869737
• ISBN-10: 0774869739
• Artikelnr.: 73328723

Autorenporträt

Patty Douglas is an associate professor of disability studies, the inaugural chair in student success and wellness, and director of the Centre for Community Engagement and Social Change in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University. She leads Re¿Storying Autism (www.restoryingautism.com), a multimedia storytelling project located in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Aotearoa (New Zealand), and is a sought-after international speaker. She is also a senior research affiliate at the Re¿Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph. Patty identifies as neurodivergent and invisibly disabled and is the mother of two neurodivergent sons, one of whom identifies as autistic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Toward Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care
Part 1: Disrupting Autism Mothers
1 Disruption as a Place to Begin
Part 2: Pursuing Autism Mothers
2 Autism's Refrigerator Mothers: The Psychoanalytic Gaze
3 Returning the Psychoanalytic Gaze
4 Autism's Mother Therapists: Behaviourism's Gaze
5 Retraining Behaviourism
6 Autism's Warrior Mothers: The Genomic Gaze
7 Resisting Genomics and War
Part 3: Reimagining Mothering, Autism, and Care
8 (M)others Speak Back: Affirming Autism and Care
Conclusion: Is Neurodiversity's Mother Next?
Notes; Works Cited; Index