TY - JOUR
T1 - The Fantasy of Maternal Autonomy and the Disabled Mother
AU - Cooper, Harriet
PY - 2020/12/8
Y1 - 2020/12/8
N2 - What does it mean to choose to become a mother who cannot parent independently? What is it like to grapple with motherhood when one has a disability, in a culture which increasingly valorises maternal autonomy and choice? In this brief essay, I want to emphasise some of the ways in which maternal scholarship has helped me to navigate and make sense of my lived experience of disabled motherhood.
AB - What does it mean to choose to become a mother who cannot parent independently? What is it like to grapple with motherhood when one has a disability, in a culture which increasingly valorises maternal autonomy and choice? In this brief essay, I want to emphasise some of the ways in which maternal scholarship has helped me to navigate and make sense of my lived experience of disabled motherhood.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.16995/sim.296
DO - https://doi.org/10.16995/sim.296
M3 - Article
VL - 13
JO - Studies in the Maternal
JF - Studies in the Maternal
SN - 1759-0434
IS - 1
ER -