Disability, the Family and Society: Listening to Mothers Book

	Series editor's preface	ix
	Acknowledgements	xi
	Introduction	1
1	A neglected minority: an overview of policy and research	5
	The UK policy context	5
	Literature and research: an overview	9
	Concluding comments	14
2	Twelve West Midlands mothers	15
	The study	15
	The women and their circumstances	18
	On being a mother	20
	Mediation	26
	Consequences	48
	Concluding comments	50
3	The things that mothers do	51
	Mothers, fathers, parents or families	52
	Caring at home	54
	Going out in public	58
	Mothers' perceptions of their children	59
	Involvement with service providers	61
	How mothers manage	67
	Concluding comments	67
4	Theorizing motherhood, mothering and caring	69
	Introduction	69
	Images of mothers: points of view	70
	The legacy of psychoanalysis	71
	Mothers as reproducers of the dominant social order	75
	Motherhood, when different is good	79
	Mothers in their own right	80
	Understanding caring	84
	Concluding comments	88
5	Living in a hostile context	89
	The development of theories of discrimination and oppression	91
	The question of impairment	94
	The question of diversity	97
	Dehumanization, devaluation and exclusion	98
	The oppressive dimensions of service provision	103
	Disabled people gaining ground	105
	Concluding comments	106
6	Mediators and allies on the ground	107
	Mother blaming	108
	Mothers as allies on the ground	110
	Moving to the other side of the track	115
	The experience of mediation: hazards, dilemmas and positive achievements	118
	Concluding comments	121
	References	123
	Index	134