Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome
Alison Piepmeier
Abstract
Unexpected is a feminist meditation on parenthood and disability in an age of genomics. It examines a rich array of cultural narratives about parenting disabled children, particularly those with Down syndrome: published memoirs and excerpts from Alison Piepmeier’s interviews with parents and prospective parents, as well as the pronouncements and implied narratives of bioethicists, cultural critics, and disability advocates. The book splices Piepmeier’s scholarly work with life writing about the experience of being a single parent to a daughter with Down syndrome and her own disabling illness.
Keywords:
Down syndrome,
motherhood,
genomics,
disability advocates
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781479816637 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: September 2021 |
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479816637.001.0001 |
