“I Feel as if I Am the One Who Is Disabled”: The Emotional Impact of Changed Employment Trajectories of Mothers Caring for Children with Disabilities

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“I Feel as if I Am the One Who Is Disabled”: The Emotional Impact of Changed Employment Trajectories of Mothers Caring for Children with Disabilities

Scott, Ellen K. - Personal Name;

Despite the 1970s middle-class feminist dream that women could have it all—families characterized by equitable distributions of household labor and interesting careers—the decades since have told a different story. In the U.S. context of a neoliberal labor market and privatized systems of family care, mothers still struggle to negotiate the conflicting demands of family and employment, particularly when caring for children with disabilities. Though an extensive literature examines labor market participation for mothers of children with disabilities, few scholars have examined the emotional impact of their altered career plans. Drawing from a sample of 40 single- and two-parent families, the author examines mothers’ accounts of care for children with disabilities, focusing on their emotional experiences of their changed employment trajectories.

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Series Title: Gender & Society
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Publisher: : sage publisher., 2010
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 08912432
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Edition: Vol. 24 no. 5, October 2010 .pp. 672-696
Subject(s): Gender
qualitative research
Children with disabilities
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