Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Introduction: Toward Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care 1
5. Part 1 Disrupting Autism Mothers
6. 1 Disruption as a Place to Begin 39
7. Part 2 Pursuing Autism Mothers
8. 2 Autism’s Refrigerator Mothers: The Psychoanalytic Gaze 77
9. 3 Returning the Psychoanalytic Gaze 98
10. 4 Autism’s Mother Therapists: Behaviourism’s Gaze 109
11. 5 Retraining Behaviourism 143
12. 6 Autism’s Warrior Mothers: The Genomic Gaze 153
13. 7 Resisting Genomics and War 177
14. Part 3 Reimagining Mothering, Autism, and Care
15. 8 (M)others Speak Back: Affirming Autism and Care 197
16. Conclusion: Is Neurodiversity’s Mother Next? 222
17. Notes 230
18. Works Cited 241
19. Index 277