Families Raising Disabled Children Enabling Care and Social Justice

by McLaughlin, Janice; Goodley, Dan; Clavering, Emma; Fisher, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780230551459
• ISBN10: 0230551459
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability studies theories to make sense of parental identities, the making and unmaking of disabled children, professional and institutional practices, community practices, the impact of parents groups and the transformative potential and boundaries of care.

Author Biography

Pamela Fisher was one of the research associates involved in this study, she is now Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Emma Clavering was one of the research associates involved in this study, she continues to work with Janice McLaughlin in PEALS in associated research projects. Dan Goodley is Professor of Psychology and Disability at the Department of Psychology and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Janice McLaughlin is is Executive Director of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Theorising Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies	p. 1
Methodology	p. 21
Research Encounters	p. 36
Unmaking Children	p. 53
Productive Parental Alliances	p. 78
Community Practices	p. 105
Professional, Institutional and Ethical Practices	p. 135
The Gender Dynamics, Transformative Potential and Boundaries of Care	p. 160
Values of Enabling Care and Social Justice	p. 183
References	p. 199
Index	p. 226
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