Full Description
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
1. Accidental Activists and the Canadian Association for Community Living 2. Categories and Constructs: The Mothering Role and Activist Mothering 3. Founding the Organization 4. The Activist Mothers 5. The Campaign to Close Institutions 6. The Campaign to Secure Human Rights 7. Listening in Stereo to Activist Mothers 8. The Imprint of Activist Mothers
