Out of Time: Maternal time and disability

Abstract

Rachel Robertson, Out of Time: Maternal time and disabilityStudies in the Maternal, 7(1), 2015, www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk Rachel Robertson Out of Time: Maternal time and disability A momentHe is laughing. He stands under a jet of water, arms out-stretched, hands wide, face tipped, mouth open -and he laughs. Then he runs around to do it all again -up the steps, down the water slide, through the fountain of water and finally standing under the bell-shaped spout as it gradually fills with water and laughing as it tips down and over him. It's a hot day and other children are here too, shrieking and racing up and down the slide and through the water

A Pregnant Pause: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Suspended Time

“…18As Rachel Robertson puts it, “Breaking the notion of a mapped linear development from dependent child to independent autonomous adult, of a future controlled by past and present, we may find ourselves able both to live in the present without the shadow of the future and imagine a future inclusive of disability and all other forms of human variation” (Robertson 2015, 10). See also Rice et al 2017.…”