Out of Time: Maternal time and disability

Starting from a maternal experience of temporal dissonance, this article takes a feminist disability studies approach to exploring disabled maternal temporality. After establishing how notions of time are central to discourses about disability and summarising some key discussions on women's tim...

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Main Author: Robertson, Rachel
Format: Journal Article
Published: University of London Birkbeck College, Department of Psychosocial Studies 2015
Online Access:http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.16995/sim.194/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10697
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description Starting from a maternal experience of temporal dissonance, this article takes a feminist disability studies approach to exploring disabled maternal temporality. After establishing how notions of time are central to discourses about disability and summarising some key discussions on women's time and caring, I use Lisa Baraitser's work on interrupted time and mothering to develop a parallel between the way both maternal and disabled subjectivities problematise temporality. My discussion then draws on Alison Kafer's and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's discussions about futurity to explore the relationship between futurity, maternal subjectivity and disability, arguing for the ethical value of the maternal experience.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-106972020-05-25T03:30:43Z Out of Time: Maternal time and disability Robertson, Rachel Starting from a maternal experience of temporal dissonance, this article takes a feminist disability studies approach to exploring disabled maternal temporality. After establishing how notions of time are central to discourses about disability and summarising some key discussions on women's time and caring, I use Lisa Baraitser's work on interrupted time and mothering to develop a parallel between the way both maternal and disabled subjectivities problematise temporality. My discussion then draws on Alison Kafer's and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's discussions about futurity to explore the relationship between futurity, maternal subjectivity and disability, arguing for the ethical value of the maternal experience. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10697 10.16995/sim.194 http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.16995/sim.194/ University of London Birkbeck College, Department of Psychosocial Studies fulltext
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Out of Time: Maternal time and disability
title Out of Time: Maternal time and disability
title_full Out of Time: Maternal time and disability
title_fullStr Out of Time: Maternal time and disability
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title_short Out of Time: Maternal time and disability
title_sort out of time: maternal time and disability
url http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/articles/abstract/10.16995/sim.194/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10697