Osynlighetens mellanförskap: autistiska kvinnors upplevelser och tankar om normalitet och moderskap.
(2021) GNVM03 20211Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- This thesis is about autistic women. It is about how we, as a society, construct and perceive normality and motherhood as a normative ideal for women. It is also about a dis/ability that often goes unnoticed since autism is not defined by any visible markers. Rather, autism is categorized by behaviour considered atypical through the medical gaze.
How to make visible the invisible, the in-between the normal and the abnormal, that which is characterized not by looks but by behaviour deemed deviant?
In this thesis I center voices of autistic women in questions regarding motherhood, normality and autism. I employ feminist theory and crip theory in order to critcially examine how autistic women are either steered towards or away from... (More) - This thesis is about autistic women. It is about how we, as a society, construct and perceive normality and motherhood as a normative ideal for women. It is also about a dis/ability that often goes unnoticed since autism is not defined by any visible markers. Rather, autism is categorized by behaviour considered atypical through the medical gaze.
How to make visible the invisible, the in-between the normal and the abnormal, that which is characterized not by looks but by behaviour deemed deviant?
In this thesis I center voices of autistic women in questions regarding motherhood, normality and autism. I employ feminist theory and crip theory in order to critcially examine how autistic women are either steered towards or away from motherhood dependent on how normality and dis/ability interacts. I coin the term the invisible in-between to show the precarious position autistic women are caught up in. I also continue the feminist tradition of seeing us all as interconnected to one another as I build upon the concept of mothering to encompass relationships between adult people. We do not live this life as autonomous individuals but rather as a collective, as individuals dependent on others, and with others dependent on us. (Less)
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- author
- Levin, Maria LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- GNVM03 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Autism, motherhood, sex/gender, normality, dis/ability, moderskap, kön/genus, normalitet, normbrytande funktionalitet
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9063899
- date added to LUP
- 2021-09-23 08:15:37
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- 2021-09-23 08:15:37
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abstract = {{This thesis is about autistic women. It is about how we, as a society, construct and perceive normality and motherhood as a normative ideal for women. It is also about a dis/ability that often goes unnoticed since autism is not defined by any visible markers. Rather, autism is categorized by behaviour considered atypical through the medical gaze.
How to make visible the invisible, the in-between the normal and the abnormal, that which is characterized not by looks but by behaviour deemed deviant?
In this thesis I center voices of autistic women in questions regarding motherhood, normality and autism. I employ feminist theory and crip theory in order to critcially examine how autistic women are either steered towards or away from motherhood dependent on how normality and dis/ability interacts. I coin the term the invisible in-between to show the precarious position autistic women are caught up in. I also continue the feminist tradition of seeing us all as interconnected to one another as I build upon the concept of mothering to encompass relationships between adult people. We do not live this life as autonomous individuals but rather as a collective, as individuals dependent on others, and with others dependent on us.}},
author = {{Levin, Maria}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Osynlighetens mellanförskap: autistiska kvinnors upplevelser och tankar om normalitet och moderskap.}},
year = {{2021}},
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