A presentation on the economics of breastfeeding might be a nice  
contribution to this conference. Any takers?

Naomi Bar-Yam


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> Date: July 24, 2009 2:30:00 PM EDT
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> Subject: NEW CALL FOR PAPERS: Mothers and the Economy: The Economics  
> of Mothering.. ARM Conference October 21-24, 2010...please  
> distribute widely...
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> please distribute widely...
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> <>Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)  14th Annual Conference
> Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering
>
> October 21-24, 2010 York University, Toronto, Canada
>
> We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, and  
> workers, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this  
> area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged.  
> We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic  
> papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions,  
> performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.
>
> 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  
> cooperatives; the effects of privatization/commodification on women;  
> 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.
>
> CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
>
> <>Martha Albertson Fineman, author of The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of  
> Dependency
> <>Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood
> <>Eva Feder Kittay, author of Love’s Labor: Essays on Women,  
> Equality, and Dependency
> <>Nancy Folbre, author of The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family  
> Values
> <>Marilyn Waring, author of If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics
> If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please  
> send a 250 word abstract
>
> and a 50 word bio by March 1, 2010 to: [log in to unmask]
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>
>
> Association for Research on Mothering
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> 726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
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> (Tel) (416) 736-2100 x 60366 (Fax) 416-736-5766  email us at [log in to unmask] 
>   http://www.yorku.ca/arm
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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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617-964-6676
www.milkbankne.org
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