bokomslag Unmothering Autism
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Unmothering Autism

Patty Douglas

Inbunden

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  • 252 sidor
  • 2024
As global rates of autism diagnosis rise, dominant cultural representations continue to define autism as a tragic neurological disorder. And mothers as primary caregivers and advocates are centrally implicated in the impulse to find both cause and cure. How should we care about autism and autistic people? Unmothering Autism emerged from Patty Douglass desire to understand a contradiction: she and her two sons (one autistic) experienced beauty living together, while their public encounters with doctors, school professionals, and agencies were fraught and sometimes violent. In this book, Douglas offers a critical history of popular and biomedical assumptions about autism, expressed through shifting social constructs that blame or valorize maternal care. Thoughout, she also intersperses her own insights and shares conversations she has had with other autism mothers. Unmothering Autism theorizes an ethics of disruption, reorienting us to autism and autistic people as valuable and fundamentally human. It centres the previously marginalized perspectives of mothers and autistic individuals to affirm their knowledge of living well together in, and through, difference.
  • Författare: Patty Douglas
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780774869720
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 252
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-11-15
  • Förlag: University of British Columbia Press