Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments This volume is truly a collaborative effort whose roots extend back many years to a graduate seminar on the body and the rhetoric of science where we, the editors, first explored and shared ideas about disability and women. As we took on the project of editing and shaping this volume, we had invaluable help and guidance from many people. First, we would like to thank Andrea O’Reilly from the Association for Research on Mothering, as well as Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rebecca Dingo, and an anonymous reviewer for their thoughtful suggestions for revision and for support of this project in its early stages. At Syracuse University Press, we owe special thanks to Annelise Finegan, acquisitions editor, who saw the merits of this book and moved the project along quickly. We are delighted that this book will be a part of the Critical Perspective on Disabilities series at Syracuse, and we thank series editor Steven Taylor and an anonymous reviewer for their enthusiasm and helpful comments. We are grateful to all for such generous readings and suggestions, which reaffirmed the value of this work and guided us through many revisions. We hope our efforts to reach the broad and diverse audience we imagine for this volume have been successful. Where the book succeeds, it does so because of this sound advice. Finally, we would like to thank all those who contributed essays, distributed our call, and otherwise expressed interest in the importance of this topic. Knowing that others were equally passionate about the need for such a book sustained us through each step of this process. ...