{"product_id":"making-down-syndrome-christine-sargent-9781978841017","title":"Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan","description":"\u003ci\u003eMaking Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan\u003c\/i\u003e draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down syndrome is gaining increasing cohesiveness. Focused on the experiences of mothers, who serve as an entry point for understanding broader family dynamics and choices, the book argues that practices and ideologies of care play a central role in making Down syndrome's embodied and political realities. They do so through the momentum of kinship futures, or futures imagined through the prism of kinship roles and relations, which shape how families organize and distribute care between and beyond kinship networks and under conditions of economic and political uncertainty. By approaching everyday life in Jordan through the lends of disability, \u003ci\u003eMaking Down Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e offers new insights into how people navigate structures of family, gender, power, inequality, and precarity, all while trying to maintain hope for and cultivate better futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Sargent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978841019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978841017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Christine Sargent","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47087722332415,"sku":"9781978841017","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7e8a3cb-b19d-4363-a835-03bde6f43b9e.jpg?v=1753850605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-down-syndrome-christine-sargent-9781978841017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}