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Jan 01, 2018
Shatter Not the Branches of the Tree of Anger: Mothering, Affect, and Disability
Abstract
Using the social interpretation of disability, Foucault's theory of disciplinary power, literary devices, and feminist literature, I write an affective narrative of mothering disabled children. In doing so I illustrate the ways in which the materiality of normalcy, surveillance, and embodiment can produce emotions that create docile mothers ashamed of their contribution to the world, conflicted mothers struggling with dissonant affects, and unruly, angry mothers battling against the architectures of their children's oppression.
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Susan L. Gabel (2018). Shatter Not the Branches of the Tree of Anger: Mothering, Affect, and Disability. Hypatia, 33(3), 553-568. https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12410
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