Taking Care

Mary Grimley Mason is a professor emerita of English at Emmanuel College and resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. She is the author of Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery and Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women’s Work Lives. She lives in the Boston area. Linda Long-Bellil is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where she conducts research and policy analysis on topics related to disability, health, and employment. She also teaches medical students and health professionals how to work effectively with people with disabilities. Her experience as a mother with a disability led to her collaboration on this book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Disability and the Role of Mothering
Chapter 1 Having a Child: From the Decision Through the Postpartum Experience
Chapter 2 Care Giving and Mothers with Disabilities: The Early Years
Chapter 3 Meeting the Outside World
Chapter 4 Family Relationships and Community
Chapter 5 What Mothers With Disabilities Know
Chapter 6 Public Policy and Mothers with Disabilities by Linda Long-Bellil
Works Cited
Selected Bibliography