Disability, Mothers, And Organization By Melanie Panitch

A Mad People’s Historical Analysis: A Book Review of Disability, Mothers, and Organization by Melanie Panitch

The audience that Panitch (2008) appeals to is disability professionals, academics, and students of Critical Disabilities that seek to influence educational and community-based policy change as an institutional and community-based awareness of the mother’s role in caregiving settings. More so, it can be used to provide more insight into activist community in which mothers and other family members that care for the mentally disabled can increase their awareness. More so, the role of mother’s in these activist movements can be greatly enhanced through Panitch’s studies on these individuals to expand the social and psychological conditions
The study is meant to provide documentary qualitative evidence for psychologists to better understand the role of the family within the caregiving process. More so, the mother is the primary focus in a study of three women (activist mothers) that took leadership roles in Canadian society, which provide a qualitative gauge of the role of activism against institutional and academic views of disabled children in a historical perspective. This is one important way in which to define the influence of a mad people’s history through direct analysis of the documents and direct accounts of activist mothers in the disabled community, and the organizations that they created in order to defend their children in local communities. An examination of the Canadian Association for Community Living will provide an academic awareness of the historical track record of community action and the important role that
The role of Canadian Association for Community Living provides one example of a mad people’s historical analysis of the motivations of mothers to crate community-based activist movements as a form of political and social activism against the poor quality of treatment for critically disabled children in institutional settings. In this mad people’s history, the personal accounts of mother activism in the care of critically disabled children are defined through three women: Jo Dickey of British Columbia, Audrey Cole of Ontario and Paulette Berthiaume of Quebec. Panitch (2008) looks at the activities of these three women in the formation of community-based movements that encouraged homecare for their children. These are important ways in which Panitch examines the everyday experiences of these three mothers, as they formed organizations in “kitchen discussions”, living room debates, and onward to the more powerful activist involvement of these women in presenting speeches to parliamentary committees at the federal level: “We settled ourselves around tables, dining room tables covered with press clippings and books; kitchen tables with photos and mugs” (Panitch, 2008, p.11). These findings suggest that