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Naomi Bar-Yam <[log in to unmask]>
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For anyone interested in submitting a paper for this conference.

Naomi


Begin forwarded message:

> Call for Oral & Poster Presentations for Breastfeeding and Feminism  
> 2011
> Please forward to help us distribute widely
>
>
>
> The Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium and
>
> The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS)
>
> collaboratively present
>
> “Reframing Birth and Breastfeeding: Moving Forward”
>
>
>
> March 11-12, Chapel Hill, NC
> Details at www.uncg.edu/cwhw <http://www.uncg.edu/cwhw> and coming  
> soon to www.motherfriendly.org<http://www.motherfriendly.org/>
> Since 2005 academic scholars, practitioners, and activists have  
> gathered from around the US and the world (including Canada,  
> England, Australia, Puerto Rico) together for a regular symposium on  
> Breastfeeding and Feminism.  Over the years, the symposia have  
> illuminated major constraints mothers’ experiences as they seek to  
> breastfeed their children in the 21st century. Breastfeeding and  
> Feminism is a transdisciplinary effort to address breastfeeding as a  
> public health priority, using feminist perspectives to emphasize the  
> impact of gender and other forms of social stratification on  
> individual women as they feed their babies. We hope to further  
> develop an understanding of how current social systems and cultural  
> practices influence women to not breastfeed or otherwise keep them  
> from achieving their breastfeeding goals.
> Breastfeeding and Feminism 2011 directs attention to the different  
> “frames” that we use conceptualize, discuss, and “market,”  
> breastfeeding promotion, protection, and support.  We will examine  
> how breastfeeding is famed by cultural ideas about the “good  
> mother,” scientific evidence, cultural consensus concerning  
> replacement feeing, breastfeeding intervention strategies, and by  
> technology, as well as how these “frames” may impact breastfeeding  
> initiation and duration and women’s lives.
>            For the first time, the organizers of the Breastfeeding  
> and Feminism Symposia have joined with the Coalition for Improving  
> Maternity Services to offer participants an even greater diversity  
> of topics and speakers.  In 2011, the collaborative conference will  
> include both  joint sessions and two tracks of concurrent sessions:  
> a CIMS track and a Breastfeeding and Feminism track.
> The symposium is aimed at a public audience of scholars, health  
> professionals, policy makers and advocates interested in feminist,  
> public health, clinical, legal, sociocultural and historical  
> approaches to breastfeeding in culture and society.   
> Overall,Breastfeeding and Feminism 2011 aims to engage a diverse,  
> broad, and inclusive audience eager to understand how feminist  
> analyses can contribute to new thinking about motherhood,  
> breastfeeding, and gender issues in public health theory and  
> practice. For a background on the symposium visit www.uncg.edu/hhp/cwhw 
> <http://www.uncg.edu/hhp/cwhw>.
>
> ORAL PRESENTATIONS
> We invite 250-word abstracts on the following topics:
>
> How Framing Matters: Representations of breastfeeding across  
> disciplines
>
> •        Presentations on this topic should  highlight the ways that  
> breastfeeding or breastfeeding mothers and children are portrayed in  
> media, literature, science, and breastfeeding promotion.  This may  
> involve discussion of changes in representations over time or  
> positive and/or negative views.   Papers may be empirical or  
> theoretical/conceptual.
>
> Framing and public health interventions: Making the connections
>
> •        Presentations on this topic should focus on describing  
> breastfeeding promotion programs or interventions that have some  
> evaluation data. We are interested in programs from all areas of the  
> “social ecology” [individual, interpersonal, community, policy,  
> sociocultural] and in those whose evaluations indicate both some  
> success OR lack of success. We are especially interested in  
> interventions/programs that were based on a theoretical or  
> conceptual framework.  Papers should help address the question of  
> how theories and interventions “frame” our understanding of  
> breastfeeding, breastfeeding promotion, and breastfeeding realities.
> The New Evidence: Science, Rhetoric, and Health Communications
>
> Papers on this topic are more theoretical or conceptual and designed  
> to explore ”unanswered questions,” “gaps in knowledge,” or critical  
> questions in need of further research. They should address questions  
> such as “what do we need to know that we do not know”  about  
> breastfeeding, breast milk, women’s behavior or social constraints?  
> “How does what we know and not know “frame” what we do?”
>
>
> The Pump Debate: Culture, Technology and Commerce
> This session is intended to explore the complexities of pumping,  
> breast milk feeding, hand expression, and the commercialization of  
> breastfeeding. Papers may be empirical or theoretical/conceptual.  
> These papers will help us explore how we now frame breastfeeding – a  
> product or process – and the implications for children, women and  
> society. Papers may examine how pumping is empowering, essential,  
> damaging, harmful, or some combination thereof. Papers may be  
> empirical or theoretical/conceptual.
> Please send the abstracts as Microsoft Word attachments to Thea  
> Calhoun-Smith at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask] 
> > no later than by November 1, 2010. Notification of acceptance to  
> the symposium by November 15. Acceptance to present at the symposium  
> will involve participation in a two-day event March 11 and 12,  
> 2011.   Conference registration will be free for presenters;  
> however, no travel or honoraria will be funded.   Please indicate  
> whether you are willing to present your paper as a poster.
>
>
> POSTER PRESENTATIONS
> We invite 250-WORD abstracts for poster presentations on
>
>
> •        The topics above
>
> •        Breastfeeding promotion, support, and advocacy
>
> •        The relationships between breastfeeding and gender,  
> feminism, race, class, culture, medicine, or technology.
>
> Poster presentations may be empirical or theoretical/conceptual.
>
> Please send poster presentation abstracts as Microsoft Word  
> attachments to Thea Calhoun-Smith at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask] 
> > no later than by December 1, 2010. Notification of acceptance to  
> the symposium by December 15. Acceptance to present at the symposium  
> will involve participation in a two-day event March 11 and 12,  
> 2011.   No travel or honoraria or registration will be funded.

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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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617-527-6263
www.milkbankne.org
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