Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion

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...

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Main Authors: Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero, Joan Pujol-Tarrés, Marisela Montenegro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2023-12-01
Series:Social Inclusion
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Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/7046
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author Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero
Joan Pujol-Tarrés
Marisela Montenegro
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description 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.
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spelling doaj.art-33b41892aaa44853a0c328eb9d447ee32023-12-05T10:44:36ZengCogitatioSocial Inclusion2183-28032023-12-0111433834910.17645/si.v11i4.70463203Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social InclusionLaura Sanmiquel-Molinero0Joan Pujol-Tarrés1Marisela Montenegro2Department of Social Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainDepartment of Social Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainDepartment of Social Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainDespite 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.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/7046critical disability studiesdisabled parenthoodlatin americariskvulnerability
spellingShingle Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero
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Marisela Montenegro
Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion
critical disability studies
disabled parenthood
latin america
risk
vulnerability
title Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion
title_full Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion
title_fullStr Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion
title_full_unstemmed Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion
title_short Latin American Perspectives on Parenthood and Disability: Vulnerability, Risk, and Social Inclusion
title_sort latin american perspectives on parenthood and disability vulnerability risk and social inclusion
topic critical disability studies
disabled parenthood
latin america
risk
vulnerability
url https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/7046
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