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Product details:
- Publisher University of British Columbia Press
- Date of Publication 15 June 2025
- ISBN 9780774869737
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English 670
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Long description:
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As global rates of autism diagnosis rise, dominant cultural representations continue to define autism as a tragic neurological disorder. And mothers – as primary caregivers and advocates – are centrally implicated in the impulse to find both cause and cure. How should we care about autism and autistic people?
Unmothering Autism emerged from Patty Douglas's desire to understand a contradiction: she and her two sons (one autistic) experienced beauty living together, while their public encounters with doctors, school professionals, and agencies were fraught and sometimes violent. In this book, Douglas offers a critical history of popular and biomedical assumptions about autism, expressed through shifting social constructs that blame or valorize maternal care. Throughout, she also intersperses her own insights and shares conversations she has had with other ""autism mothers.""
Unmothering Autism theorizes an ""ethics of disruption,"" reorienting us to autism and autistic people as valuable and fundamentally human. It centres the previously marginalized perspectives of mothers and autistic individuals to affirm their knowledge of living well together in, and through, difference.
" MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Toward Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care
Part 1: Disrupting Autism Mothers
1 Disruption as a Place to Begin
Part 2: Pursuing Autism Mothers
2 Autism's Refrigerator Mothers: The Psychoanalytic Gaze
3 Returning the Psychoanalytic Gaze
4 Autism's Mother Therapists: Behaviourism's Gaze
5 Retraining Behaviourism
6 Autism's Warrior Mothers: The Genomic Gaze
7 Resisting Genomics and War
Part 3: Reimagining Mothering, Autism, and Care
8 (M)others Speak Back: Affirming Autism and Care
Conclusion: Is Neurodiversity's Mother Next?
Notes; Works Cited; Index
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