As a woman with a spinal cord injury who uses a wheelchair, my thesis is an
autoethnography that is based largely on the journals I have written in over the last twenty years, and in particular the journals I kept while I was pregnant and giving birth to my two children. Disability is a pervasive ideology that informs many of our cultural ideas of self and other, what constitutes acceptable and celebratory bodies, political stances, public policy, and language. Much of the literature that examines the female bodily experience excludes the stories and experiences of women with disabilities. Because the body with disabilities is often seen for what it can not do, taking on the role of mother can give the body a different value, status, and worth. I feel that my experiences as a woman with a disability experiencing pregnancy and childbirth
offers insights and understanding into what it is already known about womens bodies. I display
multiple levels of personal and cultural consciousness while connecting to the larger
understandings of the culture of pregnancy, childbirth, and disability
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:USASK/oai:usask.ca:etd-03252009-105223 |
| Date | 13 April 2009 |
| Creators | Kuttai, Heather Roberta |
| Contributors | Teucher, Ulrich, Kowalski, Kent, Humbert, Louise M., Goodwin, Donna |
| Publisher | University of Saskatchewan |
| Source Sets | University of Saskatchewan Library |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-03252009-105223/ |
| Rights | restricted, I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to University of Saskatchewan or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report. |
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