Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks

Malkowski, Jennifer

doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.2.0353

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“…Even though the white political conservative emerged as a new representative anti-vaxxer, NYT print news coverage did not blame and condemn the white conservative in the same way it had pilloried the privileged, white mother (Conis, 2014;Hausman, 2019;Jack, 2014); instead, writers considered how increasing political polarization and the politicization of public health had reshaped vaccination into a political signal rather than a public health tool. Reporter Goldmacher (2021) described politicized vaccine dissent as a consequence of a country that has been "cleaved .…”

Section: Frame 2: Covid Nonvaccination As a Product Of Politicizationmentioning

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Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

Campeau

2023

Written Communication

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U.S. print news coverage of Covid vaccine hesitancy represents a departure from previous depictions of vaccine skepticism as a problem of wrong belief. This article reports on a mixed methods study of 334 New York Times texts about Covid nonvaccination and vaccine hesitancy published between December 2020–December 2021. Texts were analyzed for common themes and compared with prior media depictions of vaccine skepticism. Findings show that texts published during phased Covid vaccine distribution framed nonvaccination as a response to structural inequities, while later texts returned to blaming individuals for their hesitancy. These findings attest to the durability of individualistic framings of health while also illustrating possibilities of alternative frames.

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Section: Frame 2: Covid Nonvaccination As a Product Of Politicizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

Campeau

2023

Written Communication

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“…While the initial observations were based on his idea of the cold, distant mothers of his test subjects, it encapsulates broader notions of anxious or controlling mothers as well. 28 This phrase came to define how the actions and emotions of mothers were destructive to their children in the case of autism, popularised by the work of authors such as Bruno Bettelheim in the United States. 29 The emotional distance exhibited in these mothers led to their children's silence and withdrawal as a defence mechanism against alleged emotional trauma caused by the behaviour of the mother.…”

Section: Parent Blaming In the Early Narratives Of Autismmentioning

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From Collaboration to Resistance: The Family Dynamic in Autism Literature in Contemporary France

Briggs

2022

Contemporary European History

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The divergence concerning the treatment of autism in France developed out of the different narratives within autism literature. Psychoanalytic texts defined the treatment of autism beginning in the 1950s, with the participation of parents in the treatment of their children a central aspect of the narrative. These examples identified the parents as culprits in the appearance of autism, which was an accepted convention. However, by the late 1960s, new examples of autism literature reformulated assumptions, putting parents at odds with the medical establishment. The parent-centred examples inaugurated a new era of conflict between families and the French medical establishment, manifest in a changed approach of advocacy from associations. In each of these examples, the role of parents in their children's disability came into question, with analysts emphasising their participation in its origins and parents suggesting their role in mitigating the impact of disability for their children. This article examines the development of autism literature to show a shift in the role of families, from one of collaboration with medical professionals, to one of resistance against them.

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“…These explanations include the suggestion that autistic people have an impaired capacity for empathy, which might decrease the likelihood that they will live with an uncomfortable gender role simply for the sake of the comfort of others; and the suggestion that autistic people, who often seek clarity and precision, may be more invested than neurotypical people in finding precise gender categories that do justice to their identity (Jack 2012). 4 Jordynn Jack argues that gender, as a social and rhetorical system, goes hand in hand with other such systems, and those who find themselves rejecting other such systems may consciously or unconsciously reject gender too, so that “Individuals with autism may not recognize gender in the first place or may learn to do so later in life” (Jack 2014, 191).…”

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Transformative Creatures: Theology, Gender Diversity, and Human Identity

Cornwall¹

2022

Zygon

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Gender transition may be figured as part of a broader creaturely process of being partners in our own becoming. Gender transition is explored through the lenses of transformation (including comparisons with theosis and with religious conversion) and neurodiversity. Humans are transformative creatures; trans and gender-variant people, like others, have the power to curate their own identities and are on a journey toward perfection. Our nature as humans, including our sexed and gendered nature, is not overand-done-with. In this sense, our active building and shaping of our identities and body-stories is not a rejection of a divine blueprint for human existence, nor an exercise of illegitimate human hubris, but rather a licit creaturely form of generativity.

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Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks

Cited by 7 publications

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Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

From Collaboration to Resistance: The Family Dynamic in Autism Literature in Contemporary France

Transformative Creatures: Theology, Gender Diversity, and Human Identity

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