Mothering and Motherhood in the 21st Century: Research and Activism Conference Feb 17-19, 2011, Portugal

REMINDER! EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS: Mothering and Motherhood in the 21st Century: Research and Activism Conference Feb 17-19, 2011, Portugal

CALL FOR PAPERS=20

In celebration and commemoration of the recent launching of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) and its first conference in Europe and the 35th Anniversary of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution MIRCI with CRIA - Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal (inter-institutional centre based in four universities - ISCTE, = FCSH-UNL, FCT-UC, UM) are hosting an international conference on:

Mothering and Motherhood in the 21st Century: Research and Activism
February 17-19, 2011, Lisbon, Portugal.=20

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS: NOVEMBER 15, 2010!
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.

Building upon the Rich's crucial distinction between mothering and motherhood the conference will explore how scholars and activists challenge normative motherhood and develop new experiences, practices, identities, meanings, activism, ideologies and policies for empowered mothering.

Topics may include but are not restricted to:

Normative discourses/ideologies of Motherhood; New Momism; Intensive
Mothering; Empowered Mothering: Maternal Empowerment; Maternal Activism;
Feminism and Motherhood; Feminist Mothering; 21st Century Motherhood
Movement: Mother Outlaws/Outlaw Mothering; Mothering from the Margins;
Good/Bad Mothers; Transnational Mothering; Mothering and Migration:
Latina/Chicana Mothering; Mother Artists/Writers; Young Mothers,
Motherhood-Mothering in Film, Literature, Popular Culture and the Arts; Adoption; Hybrid Mothering; Maternal Resistance; Maternal Thinking:
Maternal Practice: Mothering and Work/Mothering as Work; Maternal =
Sexuality; Public and Social Policy and Motherhood; Maternal Health; =
Mothers and Daughters; Mothers and Sons; Mothering, Violence, Militarism =
and War; Mothering and Social Justice; Motherhood Studies; Mothering in =
the Academe; Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding; =
Othermothering/Community Mothering; Queer Mothers/Mothering; LBGT =
Mothering; Aboriginal Mothering; Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers and the =
Internet: Mommy Blogs: African and African American Mothering; South =
Asian Mothering: Asian Mothering; Mothering; Race, Ethnicity, Culture =
and Class: Maternal Identity: Becoming a Mother; Identity Politics of =
Motherhood and Mothering; Mothering and Gender Relations; =
Fathers/Fathering; Maternal Theories; Mothering/Motherhood and =
Philosophy; Reproductive Technologies, Mothers/Mothering and the Law; =
Mothers and Poverty, Mothering and Globalization; Maternal Wellbeing, =
Mothering and Social Movements; Myth and Motherhood/Mothering; Mothering =
and the Environment/Environmentalism, Family, Maternal Pedagogies; =
Mothering/Mothers and Education; Mothers/Motherhood and Sociology; =
Midwifery; Histories of Motherhood and Mothering; Marginalized =
Motherhoods/Mothering; Mothering/Mothers and Disability; =
Mothering/Mothers and Music; Teaching Motherhood; Nationalism and =
Motherhood; Motherlines; Children; Mothers/Motherhood and Anthropology; =
Mothering/Mothers and Science; Mothers/Motherhood and Psychology; =
Maternal Memoirs, Biographies, Narratives, and Autobiographies

If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250 word abstract=20

and a 50 word bio by NOVEMBER 15, 2010 to: info@motherhoodinitiative.org

*One must be a member of Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) =20

to submit an abstract for this conference. Memberships begin May 1, 2010.

Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)

140 Holland St. West, PO Box 13022

Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5 (tel) 905-775-5215

www.motherhoodinitiative.org info@motherhoodinitiative.org