'It's More of a Production': accomplishing mothering using a mobility device |
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| Authors: | PATRICIA McKEEVER Jan Angus Karen Lee-Miller Denise Reid |
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a Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, 50 George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H4.
b The Centre for Research in Women's Health, 790 Bay Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1N8.
c Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, 500 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G, 1V7. |
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| Abstract: | This qualitative study investigated the conditions and experiences of mothers who used wheelchairs and scooters for full-time mobility. In focused, open-ended interviews, 11 mothers of children aged 6 months to 18 years described sociospatial obstacles and facilitators that influenced how they cared for their children and homes. Results suggest that mothering with a disability consists of embodied and emplaced practices. Women often felt 'out of place' as mothers given the relationship between mothering discourse and mobility devices. Furthermore, the embeddedness of mothering in place meant that the social and material conditions of place served not only as antecedents to mothering challenges, but also structured possible solutions |
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