Podcast Episode 24 – Parent Memoirs and Guidebooks
October 31, 2020
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Episode 24 · October 31, 2020
Podcast Episode 24 – Parent Memoirs and Guidebooks
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Summary
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Emer Lucey (University of Wisconsin-Madison) discusses her dissertation on memoirs and guidebooks by and for parents of children with disabilities.</p>
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<figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img alt="" class="wp-image-1739" height="464" src="https://dishist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/siege-500px.jpeg" width="321" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Episode Image: Clara Park’s <em>The Siege</em> (1967), one of the first parents memoirs about a child with autism. The cover shows a black and white image of two blonde girls against a blue background. The text reads, “The story of Elly, withdrawn behind the invisible walls of autism, and her parents’ loving struggle to reach her.”</figcaption></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://dishist.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CL-Edited-Emer-Interview-with-music.mp3">Download mp3 file here.</a><br /><a href="https://dishist.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CL-Edited-Emer-Interview-FINAL.pdf">Download pdf transcript.</a></p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About Our Guest</h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Emer Lucey is a PhD candidate in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Emer’s dissertation, “Constructing Childhood Disabilities,” examines the history of Down syndrome and autism as paradigmatic childhood developmental disabilities in the United States in the mid-to-late twentieth century. She can be reached via email at <a href="mailto:lucey@wisc.edu" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">lucey@wisc.edu</a> and found on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/emerlu" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">@emerlu</a>.</p>
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