title: Love and resistance of mothers with intellectual disability from ethnocultural communities in Canada.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mothers with intellectual disability are thought to be passive, dependent and in need of protection. This study contributes to a nascent body of research that challenges this schema, revealing how women with intellectual disability who are mothers resist oppression.
  
  
  METHODS
  Narrative research methods underpinned by intersectionality theory were used to explore the lives of eight mothers with intellectual disability from various ethnocultural communities in Canada. A total of 33 in-depth interviews were conducted with these eight women over a period of 2 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The lives of the women who took part in this study were marked by violence. The women resisted. Their resistance strategies addressed two kinds of relationships: their relationships with others and their relationship with themselves.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The women in this study employed strategies of resistance, sometimes at great personal cost, to provide their children with a better life.
authors.affiliation: West Montreal Readaptation Center, CUISSS-ODIM, Montreal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0344-4091
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pacheco
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McConnell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000416:Alberta; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008149:Love; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011792:Quebec; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: ethnocultural; intellectual disability; intersectionality theory; mothers; narratives; resistance