The paper presents findings from narrative analyses of interviews with 16 Gujarati women caring for a child with an intellectual disability in a midsized city in India. Participants’ mothering narratives articulate the multiple selves (or identities) they have constructed in the context of their child’s disability. In efforts to align with the cultural discourse on good mothering, women in this study sometimes narrate themselves as knowledge bearers and as agents, as people who labor and triumph over difficult circumstances, but at other times vulnerable and victimized as they navigate both their daily responsibilities and the social expectations and discourses regarding mothering. The identity narratives educate the audience of what mothering a child with an intellectual disability means in this unique sociocultural context.

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多重自​​我

本文介绍了对 16 名古吉拉特语妇女在印度一个中等城市照顾智障儿童的访谈的叙述分析结果。参与者的母性叙事阐明了他们在孩子残疾的背景下构建的多重自我（或身份）。为了与关于良好母亲的文化话语保持一致，本研究中的女性有时将自己描述为知识承载者和代理人，是在困难环境中努力并取得胜利的人，但有时在应对日常责任时会变得脆弱和受害以及关于母亲的社会期望和话语。身份叙事教育观众在这种独特的社会文化背景下，抚养智障儿童意味着什么。