This just came across my virtual desk, I pass it on for any of you who 
may be inclined to submit something. I don't know anything about the 
journal.
  Naomi Bar-Yam

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Call For Papers: Maternal Bodies

      Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy is seeking papers for a
special issue on Maternal Bodies, to be guest edited by Rebecca Kukla.
Over the course of the last several decades, feminist philosophers have
exposed motherhood and maternality as rich and fertile terrains for
ethics, social and political philosophy, and even epistemology and
aesthetics. At the same time, a growing number of
philosophers--particularly feminist philosophers--have thrust the lived,
enculturated, material body into the limelight as an object of
philosophical attention. We are coming to see how central questions in
ethics, epistemology, and social philosophy gain depth and clarity when
asked explicitly as questions about embodied and materially situated
agents. This volume will bring these two central themes in feminist
philosophy together, in a set of conceptual explorations of maternal
bodies as they are positioned in culture, imaginatively represented,
marked by significant differences along lines of race, class, shape, and
capacity, valued as appropriate or inappropriate, constituted in
relation to the bodies of fetuses, children, fathers, lovers, and women
who are not mothers, renegotiated in relationship to new technologies,
sites of distinctive skills and epistemic practices, and sites of
agency, responsibility, integrity, and vulnerability.

      Possible topics include, but are by no means restricted to:

           • Relationships between fetal bodies and maternal bodies
           • Motherhood and queer sexuality
           • Disabled mothers
           • The sociocultural privileges of biological motherhood
           • Adoptive maternal bodies
           • The medical management of fertility, pregnancy, and
motherhood
           • The ethics and politics of breastfeeding
           • The ontology of maternal bodies
           • Aging mothers and their adult children
           • Mothering across racial differences
           • 'Bad' and 'untrustworthy' maternal bodies
           • Absent mothers
           • The invisibility or distortion of nonmaternal caregiving
bodies
           • Visual and narrative representations of maternal bodies
           • Maternal bodies as objects of science
           • Mothering in domestic and in public spaces
           • The moral contours of embodied mothering
           • Surrogate motherhood


      Papers should be less than 10,000 words long, and should be
identified as submissions for the special issue on Maternal Bodies. The
paper submission deadline is 1 November, 2004. Contributors are to
follow the Hypatia style guidelines as found at the Hypatia website:
http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia. Please e-mail all correspondence and
manuscripts, saved as attachments in Word or WordPerfect, to:
[log in to unmask] Please provide a cover letter identifying your
manuscript as a submission for the special issue.

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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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