Forbidden option or planned decision? : Physically disabled women’s narratives on the choice of motherhood
Abstract
This narrative study explores personal narratives by disabled women on their choice to become a mother. Eleven Finnish physically disabled mothers were interviewed. The interview data were analysed using Greimas’ actant model. The women produced three types of narratives about their journeys to motherhood: compensation, forbidden option and planned choice. In these narratives, the disabled women struggled with the disabling, oversimplifying and suppressive cultural master narratives of ‘good’ motherhood. Through the narratives, the women distanced themselves from these dominant cultural narratives and constructed strong agency for themselves as mothers.
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Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2017
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Taylor & Francis A S; Nordic Network on Disability Research
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201702271527Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1501-7419
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2016.1243150
Language
English
Published in
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Citation
- Lappeteläinen, A., Sevón, E., & Vehkakoski, T. (2017). Forbidden option or planned decision? : Physically disabled women’s narratives on the choice of motherhood. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 19(2), 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2016.1243150
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Copyright© 2016 Nordic Network on Disability Research. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Taylor & Francis. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.