Disability, Mothers, and Organization: Accidental Activists

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Routledge, Aug 6, 2012 - Family & Relationships - 234 pages

This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place their issues on a more public scale. In highlighting this under-examined movement, this book contributes to the scholarship on Disability Studies, Women's Students, Sociology, and Social Movement Studies.

 

Contents

Chapter One Accidental Activists and the Canadian Association for Community Living
1
The Mothering Role and Activist Mothering
17
Chapter Three Founding the Organization
33
Chapter Four The Activist Mothers
59
Chapter Five The Campaign to Close Institutions
101
Chapter Six The Campaign to Secure Human Rights
127
Chapter Seven Listening in Stereo to Activist Mothers
147
Chapter Eight The Imprint of Activist Mothers
169
Resolutions
173
Notes
181
Bibliography
195
Index
213
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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

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