Claudia Malacrida is Associate Professor, Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. Her research centers on motherhood, disability, social control and the intersections of public policy into the private lives of women. She is the author of three books: Mourning the Dreams: How Parents Create Meaning from Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Early Infant Death (Left Coast Press, 1998, 2007), Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals and Attention Deficit Disorder (University of Toronto Press, 2003), and Sociology of the Body: A Reader (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2008).