An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem , Pearson Paperback^+

An Ordinary FutureMargaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different\nAuthor(s): Thomas W Pearson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520388291, 978-0520388291\nSynopsis\nThis vivid portrait of contemporary parenting blends memoir and cultural analysis to explore evolving ideas of disability and human difference.\nAn Ordinary Future is a deeply moving work that weaves an account of Margaret Mead's path to disability rights activism with one anthropologist's experience as the parent of a child with Down syndrome. With this book, Thomas W. Pearson confronts the dominant ideas, disturbing contradictions, and dramatic transformations that have shaped our perspectives on disability over the last century.\n\n Pearson examines his family's story through the lens of Mead's evolving relationship to disabilitya topic once so stigmatized that she advised Erik Erikson to institutiona.