![]() ![]() ![]() All the able-bodied women that I knew were complaining. I thought pregnancy was the hard part and it really wasn’t. ![]() 5, 6 For women with physical disabilities, disability, while experienced as limiting and even frustrating in many ways, was also experienced as a sort of blessing in the perinatal period. I found this to be the case in my own research on the pregnancy and motherhood experiences of women with physical disabilities. ![]() What Liz Crow and other feminist disability scholars 2 – 4 argue for is an embodied, relational understanding of disability, wherein disability is understood as simultaneously material or physical (i.e., in or of our bodies) and shaped by social interactions, discourses and the environment around us (i.e., experienced through our bodies). Hogan’s eloquent summary of the history of the medical and social models of disability include the perspectives of some feminist disability scholars. 1 As someone who works at the intersections of public health, disability studies, gender studies and psychology, I was delighted to see Dr. Andrew Hogan’s article on the social and medical models of disability. ![]()
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