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Hot and Cool Mother Receives Disability History Association Outstanding Article Award

16 Sep, 2022

Hot and Cool Mother Receives Disability History Association Outstanding Article Award

Congratulations to Hannah Zeavin, winner of the 2022 Disability History Association (DHA)'s Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award for “Hot and Cool Mothers,” differences 32, no. 3 (2021): 53–84.

From the announcement: Zeavin’s sophisticated article rose to the top of a highly competitive and wide-ranging group of submissions. Committee members described Zeavin’s work as “beautifully written and researched,” “theoretically adept,” and “exceptional in its braiding of feminist history, histories of disabled children, the ‘creation’ of disability, affect theory, discourse analysis, and histories of capitalism, race, and 20th century America.” Zeavin’s “fascinating” and “remarkable” article explores “how queerness and neurodivergence are said to be ‘produced’ in ways which stigmatize a variety of mothers. It shows, as such, how disability and disabled children are affectively and linguistically utilized as a tool for misogyny, racism, and ableism, pushing the field to think about disability more broadly than impairment.” The Committee particularly commended Zeavin’s work for its clarity and use of primary sources, bringing “together a wide range of philosophical, pop culture, professional and pedagogical supports for its argument.”

To learn more about this award, please visit here.