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Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion
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Abstract Despite the growing recognition and acceptance of disabled people's sexuality, there are barriers to parenthood anchored in metaphors of vulnerability and risk. The social inclusion of disabled parents seems both desirable and risky, making disabled parenthood one of the current frontiers of inclusi... view more
Despite the growing recognition and acceptance of disabled people's sexuality, there are barriers to parenthood anchored in metaphors of vulnerability and risk. The social inclusion of disabled parents seems both desirable and risky, making disabled parenthood one of the current frontiers of inclusion for the disabled body. The interest in disabled parenting in Anglo-Saxon academic literature has barely been considered related to Latin American production. This article aims to address this gap by exploring the Latin American scientific community's understanding of parenthood and disability. To do so, we conduct a pragmatic discourse analysis of Latin American scientific articles in Web of Science (in English) and RedALyC and SciELO (in Spanish). Our findings show how the Latin American scientific community draws on different models of disability - in some cases introducing an intersectional perspective - that reproduce metaphors of vulnerability/risk regarding parenthood. We conclude by highlighting the importance of establishing dialogues between critical perspectives on disability from the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American contexts to address the complexities of the reproduction processes of disabled people. These dialogues can contribute to problematising the metaphor of vulnerability/risk currently associated with disabled parenthood.... view less
Keywords
Latin America; disability studies; risk; vulnerability; parenthood; disability; reproduction
Classification
Social Problems
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Free Keywords
critical disability studies; disabled parenthood
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 338-349
Journal
Social Inclusion, 11 (2023) 4
Issue topic
Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed