Bigger Than the Sky : Disabled Women on Parenting

by Wates, Michele

• ISBN13: 9780704345454
• ISBN10: 0704345455
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Summary

Disabled women challenge rigid, limiting views of what it means to be a disabled woman and parent. They describe having to fight for the right to become pregnant, the poignant pleasure of teaching children the benefits of having a "different" mother, and the sheer delight of involving themselves in a child's life.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Acknowledgements	9	(4)
Part 1 - Making Plans
Until Now	13	(2)
Alana Theriault
Insemination	15	(3)
Rowen Jade
A Few Thoughts About Children	18	(5)
Wendy S Harbour
Fertility Goddess	23	(2)
Laura Hershey
Discussing Sexuality with Disabled Girls	25	(2)
Alicia Contreras
The Secret	27	(2)
Jenni Meredith
In My Mind's Eye: I	29	(5)
Jo Litwinowicz
Child	34	(1)
Sue Napolitano
The Right to Maternity	35	(4)
Rosangela Berman Bieler
Making a Reality of My Own	39	(6)
Liz Crow
Part II - Setting Out
Somewhere a Mockingbird	45	(7)
Deborah Kent
Wonderful Whirlwind	52	(5)
Merry Cross
Gonzilla the Ape Woman Gets Angry	57	(7)
Jill Daly
Panic Attack	64	(2)
Linda M Gordon
Jamie and Me	66	(1)
Janet Pedley
A Damned Good Job	67	(7)
Ellen Basani
Me, I am a Mother	74	(2)
Sue Norris
In My Mind's Eye: II	76	(6)
Jo Litwinowicz
Tehilah: Our Answered Prayer	82	(7)
Chava Willig Levy
Reclamation	89	(5)
Micheline Mason
Are You Sure You Can Cope?	94	(7)
Michele Wates
Part III - Along the Way
The Seeds of Trust	101	(8)
Denise Sherer Jacobson
Role Reversal	109	(1)
Catherine Bradbury
In My Mind's Eye: III	110	(5)
Jo Litwinowicz
A Job for Life	115	(3)
Sue Firth
Attitudes in Zambia	118	(2)
Constance Hambwalula
Change for the Hospital Phone	120	(5)
Heather Beattie
Banality	125	(8)
Rhoda J Olkin
There are Worse things than Being Bored	133	(3)
Beth Weil
On Being a Hawaiian Auntie	136	(2)
Julia Dolphin Trahan
Reflections of a Mama Bear	138	(5)
Sylvia Dick Gomez
Part IV - Home
In My Mind's Eye: IV	143	(4)
Jo Litwinowicz
Enmeshed	147	(6)
Vicky D'aoust
The Devil's Confusion	153	(6)
Jodi Hoar
Single Parenthood in 1950s New Zealand	159	(4)
Karen Peterson Butterworth
Great Mum	163	(1)
Frances Brown
A Remarkable Woman	164	(2)
Philippa Armstrong
I Won't Go to Weddings	166	(4)
Shallo Chand
Not Exactly Eye to Eye	170	(1)
Michele Wates
Intervals	171	(5)
Sylvia Dick Gomez
A Child of Both Countries	176	(7)
Corbett Joan O'Toole
Bigger than the Sky	183	(7)
Adina Frieden
Contributors' Notes	190	(9)
Resources	199