Mothers and Models of Disability |
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Authors: | Gail Landsman |
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Affiliation: | Anthropology Department, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, USA. Landsman@albany.edu |
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Abstract: | Based on a qualitative anthropological study of American mothers of infants and young children newly diagnosed with disability, this essay examines how mothers understand their children and define disability in relation to publicly available discourses of disability and identity. In seeking to improve their children's opportunities in mainstream society, mothers appear to comply with the medical model. But over time and in the process of providing meaning to their experience, mothers retool models, drawing both on the social and minority group models' rejection of a problem-based definition of disability as inherently caused by impairment and on their own intimate engagement with impairment as an embodied experience. |
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