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  • Title: Love and resistance of mothers with intellectual disability from ethnocultural communities in Canada.
    Author: Pacheco L, McConnell D.
    Journal: J Appl Res Intellect Disabil; 2017 May; 30(3):501-510. PubMed ID: 28247464.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Mothers with intellectual disability are thought to be passive, dependent and in need of protection. This study contributes to a nascent body of research that challenges this schema, revealing how women with intellectual disability who are mothers resist oppression. METHODS: Narrative research methods underpinned by intersectionality theory were used to explore the lives of eight mothers with intellectual disability from various ethnocultural communities in Canada. A total of 33 in-depth interviews were conducted with these eight women over a period of 2 years. RESULTS: The lives of the women who took part in this study were marked by violence. The women resisted. Their resistance strategies addressed two kinds of relationships: their relationships with others and their relationship with themselves. CONCLUSION: The women in this study employed strategies of resistance, sometimes at great personal cost, to provide their children with a better life.
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