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What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This
book extensively applies biographical and narrative research
methods to mothering from international perspectives. This edited
collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to
mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences,
illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped
through interlinking state, media, religious beliefs and broader
society are reflected in their identities and individual life
choices. Considering trust, rapport, reflexivity and self-care,
this collection advances methodological practice in the study of
mothers, carers and childless women’s lives.
Mourning the Dreams is an accessible and moving account of parents
experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during
pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life. Drawing
from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her
own experience, and a range of qualitative methods, Claudia
Malacrida finds that bereaved parents not only grieve their child
and its unrealized potential, but often find their personal
experiences are at odds with social forces and prevailing
assumptions about the nature of their loss and how they should
react to is. She explores the meanings parents create as they face
denial, silence, and other reactions from friends, family,
communities, coworkers, the medical community, and even within
spousal relationships. She also describes the courage and
creativity of parents who create and negotiate meanings that help
them grieve, recover, and manage relationships.
Mourning the Dreams is an accessible and moving account of parents'
experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during
pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life. Drawing
from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her
own experience, and a range of qualitative methods, Claudia
Malacrida finds that bereaved parents not only grieve their child
and its unrealized potential, but often find their personal
experiences are at odds with social forces and prevailing
assumptions about the nature of their loss and how they should
react to is. She explores the meanings parents create as they face
denial, silence, and other reactions from friends, family,
communities, coworkers, the medical community, and even within
spousal relationships. She also describes the courage and
creativity of parents who create and negotiate meanings that help
them grieve, recover, and manage relationships.
Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers,
institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia
Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of
"mentally defective" children and adults in twentieth-century
Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the
last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a
sobering account of the connection between institutionalization and
eugenics. Malacrida explains how isolating the Michener Centre's
residents from their communities served as a form of passive
eugenics that complemented the active eugenics program of the
Alberta Eugenics Board. Instead of receiving an education, inmates
worked for little or no pay - sometimes in homes and businesses in
Red Deer - under the guise of vocational rehabilitation. The
success of this model resulted in huge institutional growth,
chronic crowding, and terrible living conditions that included both
routine and extraordinary abuse. Combining the powerful testimony
of survivors with a detailed analysis of the institutional impulses
at work at the Michener Centre, A Special Hell is essential reading
for those interested in the disturbing past and troubling future of
the institutional treatment of people with disabilities.
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