Hi everyone,
This crossed my email today, it occurs to me that a paper on
breastfeeding in public might be good for this issue. Any takers?
Naomi
CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter Press
is seeking submissions for an edited collection
Criminalized Mothers: Criminalizing Motherhood
Co-editors: Joanne Minaker and Bryan Hogeveen
Submission Deadline for Abstracts:June 1, 2012
Alongside the dissemination of toxic neoliberal policies that benefit
the richest segments of society, the conditions in which criminalized
women mother have eroded. While the affluent savor the fruits of
investment into new markets and unfettered movement of capital around
the globe, the poor and marginalized find themselves subject to
increasing levels of surveillance and social control strategies
intended to monitor their movements and intrusively govern their
conduct. In the same instant, residues of the welfare state that
initially undergirded the well-being of the impoverished and
marginalized crumble under the weight of a state that appears
unwilling to offer any meaningful assistance. In this ethos of gross
income disparities and the vilification of the most marginalized
segments of society the criminal justice state manages the excess and
punishes the impoverished. Males continue to constitute the vast
majority of individuals dealt with by the criminal justice state.
Women, especially poor and racialized females, are nevertheless the
fastest growing prison population worldwide. Whether through prison,
house arrest, probation or restorative justice many marginalized women
and girls find themselves subjected to state sponsored controls. Many
of these women and girls are mothers. We collectively know very little
about the conditions and contexts under which these women care for
their children. This collection examines the challenges, difficulties
and successes of criminalized mothers. It will highlight innovative
programs and enterprising projects that seek to carve out welcome and
hospitable spaces for these women. In particular, it seeks to give a
voice to marginalized women who are too often silent and silenced by
systems of control. The editors seek article length contributions from
scholars and practitioners from all disciplines, including (but not
limited to) criminology, sociology, social legal studies, education,
political science, philosophy, criminal justice studies, geography and
anthropology. We are equally interested in auto-ethnographic accounts
that detail the frustrations and triumphs of mothers who have
experienced criminal justice interventions. Artwork, poetry and short
stories are also welcome.
Articles may examine (but are not limited to) the following topics:
Probation and mothering; mothering on house arrest; restorative
justice and motherhood; mothering in the context of domestic violence;
prison mother/child programs; mothering while incarcerated; criminal
justice policies and motherhood; the criminalization of poverty and
motherhood; addictions and mothering; mothering sex workers;
criminalized girls and mothering; programs for young female offenders
and their children; motherhood and risk; surveillance and mothering;
ethnography; mothering on parole; racialized mothers; child welfare;
foster mothering; immigrant mothers; tensions between rights and needs
of children and mothers.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit 250 word abstracts and a 50 word biography and
citizenship.
Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2012. Completed chapters are due June
1, 2013
Please send submissions and inquiries directly to Joanne Minaker
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Demeter Press
140 Holland St. West, PO 13022
Bradford, ON L3Z 2Y5 Tel: (905) 775-9089
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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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