Lost and Found: Intimacy and Distance in Three Motherhood Memoirs about Autistic Children

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Lost and Found: Intimacy and Distance in Three Motherhood Memoirs about Autistic Children

This chapter explores the complexities of maternal representations of autistic children through an analysis of the play of intimacy and distance within three book-length memoirs. Robertson examines how mothers write about their child’s neurological difference whilst also representing the feelings of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Robertson, Rachel
Other Authors:	Justine Dymond
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	Demeter Press 2013
Subjects:	motherhood memoir autism disability
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6754

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