Maternità e disabilità. Un’analisi sociologica sulle esperienze riproduttive delle donne con disabilità in Italia

Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Ester Micalizzi
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 133-148 File size 240 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2024-002010
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This article focuses on the reproductive experiences of women with physical disabilities. Through the analysis of some of the material collected for research on the relationship between psycho-emotional disablism and the embodied experience of motherhood, the authors intend to reflect on the ways in which women with disabilities negotiate their reproductive desires with social and medical expectations. Some stories of mothers with visible and invisible physical disabilities (multiple sclerosis, infantile cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy) collected through semi-structured interviews are explored. The results highlight the ways in which med-ical discourse acts on their reproductive decision as a barrier to being that can guide their re-productive choices, actions and desires.

Keywords: intensive mothering; embodiment; risk; psycho-emotional disablism; ableism; medical expert.

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Ester Micalizzi, Maternità e disabilità. Un’analisi sociologica sulle esperienze riproduttive delle donne con disabilità in Italia in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 2/2024, pp 133-148, DOI: 10.3280/SES2024-002010