Just got this from the Association for Research on Mothering. I hope 
some of lactnet's wise and talented writers will submit to this volume.

Naomi Bar-Yam

> (NOTE: If you are interested in this please contact
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>
> Call for Submissions
>
> We are seeking papers for a proposed edited collection, Mother Knows
> Best:  Talking Back to Sears And Other Baby Trainers (working title).
> We are
> interested in work from a variety of (inter)disciplines that:
>
> *addresses the white, middle-class, and heterosexist bias of pregnancy,
> childbirth, and childrearing advice books;
> *challenges the way that Sears and others have placed most of the 
> burden
> of childrearing on mothers and essentialized the role of mothers;
> *explores the cultural, class, and racial implications of importing
> "attachment parenting" for use among primarily white, middle-class,
> nuclear families;
> *debates the pros and cons of breastfeeding – and extended 
> breastfeeding
> – in a feminist context;
> *defends certain aspects of baby trainers, or of attachment parenting
> more generally, again within a feminist context;
> *examines the tensions between extremes that set the stage for many of
> these conflicts:  the current state of medicalization of pregnancy,
> childbirth, and
> breastfeeding, and the just as insistent promotion of "natural"
> mothering;
> *analyzes any other issues raised by baby trainers, including but not
> limited to mother's (and fathers') roles in the family, working out of
> the home mothers,
> stay at home mothers, daycare, babywearing, cloth diapering, the family
> bed, crying it out and other forms of sleep training, etc.
>
> We are interested in research/theoretical articles, personal narrative
> essays, and any combinations of the two.  Submissions should be
> approximately 2,500-6,500
> words, and should be sent via email to [log in to unmask] or
> [log in to unmask] by January 1, 2005.  Please include the subject
> line,
> "book submission," and send your submission as an MS Word or RTF
> attachment.  Please also include full contact information, 
> institutional
> affiliation (if
> any), and brief biographical information.
>
>
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> Jessica Nathanson, Ph.D. American Studies
> Concentration, Women's Studies
> Instructor, English and Gender Studies
> Augustana College
> Kilian Community College
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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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