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(Un)Becoming Mothers: Mapping the structural intersections of motherhood and disability
UCC School of Law invites you to join visiting scholar Beverley Clough on Thursday, 25th September, 12-2pm at the Shtepps, The Hub
It is well documented that disabled women are more likely to have their children removed from their care. There is a large body of literature critically engaging with this in the context of child protection processes and post-birth separation. This paper seeks to build on and extend these literatures by placing them in the broader legal, policy and material landscape shaping disability, reproduction and motherhood. By bringing disability justice and reproductive justice literatures into conversation as an analytical lens, the paper seeks to map the cumulative, temporal and overlapping processes and absences that shape experiences of (un)becoming mothers.
Beverley Clough is a Professor of Law & Social Justice at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work focuses on the intersections between health law, disability law and social care, interrogating these through the lens of feminist legal theory and critical disability studies. Her current work has a particular focus on spatial and temporal dimensions of law.
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