A presentation on the economics of breastfeeding might be a nice
contribution to this conference. Any takers?
Naomi Bar-Yam
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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...
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> <>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.
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> CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
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> <>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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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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