Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations • ix Acknowledgments • xi Contributors • xiii Introduction On Liminality and Cultural Embodiment Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio • 1 P a r t O n e Reproductive Technologies in the Disciplining of Bodies • 17 1. “Healthy, Accomplished, and Attractive” Visual Representations of “Fitness” in Egg Donors Jen Cellio • 19 2. Negotiating Discourses of Maternal Responsibility, Disability, and Reprogenetics The Role of Experiential Knowledge Felicity Boardman • 34 3. Stalking Grendel’s Mother Biomedicine and the Disciplining of the Deviant Body Terri Beth Miller • 49 4. Uneasy Subjects Disability, Feminism, and Abortion Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson • 63 vi • Contents P a r t T w o Refusals Contesting Diagnoses and Cultural Scripts • 79 5. “What Does It Matter?” A Meditation on the Social Positioning of Disability and Motherhood Samantha Walsh • 81 6. Reconceiving Motherhood Kristin Lindgren • 88 7. Refusing Diagnosis Mother-Daughter Agency in Confronting Psychiatric Rhetoric Abby Wilkerson • 98 8. Diagnosable Mothering at the Threshold of Disability Julia Miele Rodas • 113 P a r t T h r e e Narrativity and Meaning-Making Rewriting Stories of Mothering and Disability • 127 9. Mothers as Storytellers Linnéa E. Franits • 129 10. Sharing Stories Motherhood, Autism, and Culture Rachel Robertson • 140 11. Nurturing the Nurturer Reflections on an Experience of Breastfeeding, Disability, and Physical Trauma Heather Kuttai • 156 12. Vulnerable Subjects Motherhood and Disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherríe Moraga Suzanne Bost • 164 Contents • vii P a r t F o u r Reimagining Activism A Politics of Disability and Mothering • 179 13. From Surrender to Activism The Transformation of Disability and Mothering at Kew Cottages, Australia Corinne Manning • 183 14. History Examined One Woman’s Story of Disability and Advocacy Marilyn Dolmage • 203 15. My Mother’s Mental Illness Whitney Jones-Garcia • 210 16. A Schizo-ly Situated Daughter A Mother’s Labor Elizabeth Metcalf • 218 17. Motherhood and Activism in the Dis/Enabling Context of War The Case of Cindy Sheehan Abby M. Dubisar • 222 P a r t F i v e Multiple Identities, Overlapping Borders • 241 18. The Political Is Personal Mothering at the Intersection of Acquired Disability, Gender, and Race Julie E. Maybee • 245 19. “You Gotta Make Aztlán Any Way You Can” Disability in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints Julie Avril Minich • 260 20. Intersecting Postcolonial Mothering and Disability A Narrative of an Antiguan Mother and Her Son Denise Cordella Hughes-Tafen • 275 viii • Contents 21. Mothering, Disability, and Poverty Straddling Borders, Shifting Boundaries, and Everyday Resistance Shawn A. Cassiman • 289 Afterword(s) Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio • 302 References • 317 Index • 341 ...