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)
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> collaboratively present
>
> “Reframing Birth and Breastfeeding: Moving Forward”
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>
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> 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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