GSFS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ashley Treatment, Refrigerator Mothers, Amniocentesis

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 303
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

Caregiving and gender: a critical approach to the human rights of families of persons with disabilities, mother role vs activist mothering. Most of the available studies emphasize care-giving and do not consider the role of the mothers of children with disabilities as children"s and women"s human rights activists. Mothers, when have a child with disability, become advocates for children with disability. Mothers of children with disability are often activists: mother blaming amniocentesis) Pre-natal (eating poorly, smoking, drinking alcohol, and not having had an. Selfishness (placing the child in an institution) Aggression (mothers who try to defend their child"s right to go to school) Being a single mother might reinforce blame: mothers as primary caregivers. Social arrangements about mothering sometimes imply that the entire responsibility of taking care of a child with a disability falls on the mother. Mothers become sometimes the target of blame (bad mothers) and it is not unusual that their partners abandon them after child is born.