Hi everyone,
This just came across my virtual desk. Does anyone have a manuscript  
on the economics of breastfeeding, or anything on economics,  
breastfeeding and the workplace?

Naomi


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> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
> The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 3.1 of the
> Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community  
> Involvement (JMI)
> to be published in spring/summer 2012.
>
> Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering
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> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: EXTENDED UNTIL NOVEMBER 15, 2011!
> The journal will explore the topic of Mothers and the Economy from a  
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> scholars, students, activists, government agencies and workers,  
> artists, mothers, and others who work or research in this area.  
> Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We  
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> artwork on the subject.
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> Topics can include (but are not limited to):
> the economics of maintaining sustainable family systems; mothering,  
> appropriate technology and economics; mothering and microcredit;  
> mothering and economic activism; mothering and economic activism  
> through the arts; mothering with reduced resources; social and  
> economic supports for mothering; mothering within the neoliberal  
> context; motherwork and valuation of motherwork,mothering and the  
> economics of unpaid labour; mothers-as-providers, mother-led  
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> mothering and the economics of raising children with disabilities;  
> the economics of maternal mortality rates; the "selling" of  
> mothering and the economics of consumerism; consumption and the  
> marketing of mothering; the economics of reproductive technologies  
> and surrogacy; structural adjustment policies and mothering; the  
> financial implications for mothers of family law reforms and welfare  
> state developments, the economic impacts of environmental  
> degradation on mothering; quantifications of mothering/caregiving/ 
> parenting as a part of the base structure of the economic  
> productivity of society; children as economic assets/burdens; the  
> actual value of domestic/unpaid labour; motherhood and the gender  
> pay gap,mothering and the feminization of poverty; mothering,  
> occupational segregation and the wage gap; the impacts of economic  
> globalization on mothering and kinship networks; the envisioning and  
> articulation of more human-centered economic systems and policies to  
> enhance mothering/caregiving practices; transformations of male  
> breadwinner-female caretaker models; the economics of caregiving/ 
> parenting in nontraditional households; mothering and the "new home  
> economics"; mothering, feminist economics and social justice;  
> mothering and welfare policies; mothering and health care costs; the  
> commodification of domestic labour; global and transnational  
> motherhood,transnational families in the new global economy; the  
> economics of the second shift; global care chains; mothering/ 
> caregiving/parenting and economic justice, motherwork in  
> organisations; mothers' economic transactions; mothers' labour paid  
> and unpaid; mothers in enterprise and mothers in alternative  
> enterprise; mothers and non-monetary economic flows; mothers in the  
> workplace; homeschooling mothers; mothers as consumers; mothers and  
> Marxism; mothers and neo-liberalism; mothers in a capitalist  
> economy; mothers in a diverse economy; mothers and food economies;  
> mother's milk and breastfeeding; the economic roles of mothers in  
> undeveloped economies; the economic roles of mothers in non-Western  
> cultures; mothering and economic subjectivity; mothers as  
> alternative economic activists.
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> SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY November 15, 2011
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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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