I know some of you are working on adoption and breastfeeding, thought
this announcement was worth passing on. A chapter/article on this
topic in this book would be a good way to raise awareness.
Naomi Bar-Yam
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Association for Research on Mothering <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: January 23, 2007 10:12:25 AM EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: New Call for Papers from the Association for Research on
> Mothering (ARM)
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>
> Please distribute widely!
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Demeter Press
> is seeking submissions for an edited collection on
> Adoption and Mothering
> Publication Date: Spring 2009
> Editor: Frances Latchford
> Call for Papers
>
> We are excited to be publishing an interdisciplinary book that focuses
> on mothering and adoption studies. We are seeking papers that
> critically examine a variety of debates, issues, ideas, and concerns
> that surround being a mother in the context of the adoption triad.
> Papers must focus on birth mothers (i.e., women who have relinquished
> children for adoption) and/or adoptive mothers. Papers that focus on
> transracial adoptive mothering, interracial birth mothering and/or
> queer
> adoptive or birth mothering are also encouraged.
>
> Papers can:
>
> *Examine historical and/or contemporary social, political, and psychic
> issues and debates concerning mothering and adoption (e.g., issues
> pertaining to adoption/mothering and race, class, ability, gender,
> sex,
> and/or sexuality.)
>
> *Look at closed, open, and/or informal adoption systems and practices.
>
> * Investigate any aspects of the meaning, experience, identity, and/or
> subjectivity of the ‘mother’ relative to the adoption triad.
>
> *Explore the experience, identity, and/or subjectivity of adoptees
> specifically in relation to the birth mother and/or adoptive mother.
>
> *Be written from a variety of perspectives and disciplines (e.g.,
> philosophy, history, psychology, law, sociology, social work, women’s
> studies, critical race studies, and/or queer or sexuality studies).
>
> A key goal of the book is to offer new critical perspectives on
> adoption
> and mothering. Papers should attempt to challenge or think differently
> about traditional and institutionalized ideas, assumptions,
> pathologies,
> psychologies, and discourses that historically and currently surround
> birth mothers and/or adoptive mothers.
>
> Abstracts/Proposals (250-300 words) due: January 1, 2008
> Acceptances will be made by: February 28, 2008
> Accepted and completed submissions due: July 1, 2008
>
> Please send inquiries and abstracts/proposals to:
> Dr. Frances Latchford, Editor
> Adoption and Mothering
> [log in to unmask]
>
> (please revisit the webpage for occasional updates)
> Association for Research on Mothering
> 726 Atkinson, York University
> 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
> Phone: (416) 736-2100 x60366 FAX: (416) 736-5766
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England
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617-964-6676
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