Here is a call for papers that has come to my attention, relevant to us 
as bf advocates.

Naomi Bar-Yam



> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Panel Session Title: " Between the Baby and the Bathwater: Navigating 
> Parenthood in Academia"
> Midwest Modern Language Association's annual meeting 
> (11/10/05-11/13/05) in Milwaukee, WI
>  
>
>  This "special session" proposes to examine the state of our 
> profession in terms of parenthood.  In looking to this 
> personal/professional nexus, the panel seeks narrative accounts that 
> are situated within the popular press's current representations of 
> parenthood in America. How do the feelings of exile, isolation, 
> alienation, and anger that the popular media is attaching to 
> contemporary parenthood play out within our profession? How do 
> institutional and departmental policies and practices affect having, 
> as well as raising, children? What negotiations must be made in terms 
> professional goals, desires for our children, and one's own 
> understanding of oneself as a parent, a scholar, and a teacher?  Is it 
> possible to be a feminist academic and a parent? What other factors 
> make having and raising children so fraught?
>
> The conflicts surrounding academic professionalism and parenthood are 
> not only a significant issue but also a timely concern.  The recent
> outpouring of popular press books about the state of parenthood-books 
> such as Judith Warner's much-reviewed Perfect Madness, Cathi Hanauer's 
> The Bitch in the House and Daniel Jones's companion The Bastard on the 
> Couch, Susan Douglass and Meredith Michael's The Mommy Myth, Ariel 
> Gore's The Mother Trip, and Ann Crittenden's The Price of 
> Motherhood-demands attention and response.  "Between the Baby and the 
> Bathwater" also aims to addresses the M/MLA's 2005 conference theme, 
> "History, Memory, Exile," as parenthood makes many feel alienated, 
> isolated, and exiled from the profession. The session hopes to 
> articulate these feelings, theorize them, and address the causes and 
> effects that stem from both personal decisions and professional 
> policies and practices.
>  
>
>  Please send one-page abstracts to Gretchen Papazian at 
> [log in to unmask] by April 20, 2005.
>
> MMLA's guidelines for abstracts can be found at 
> <http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/abstractspecs.html>
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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
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Researcher, Writer, Educator
in Maternal and Child Health
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