CALL FOR PAPERS
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
Mothers and Work; Mothering as Work:
Policy, Ideology, Experience, and Representation
June 24-27,2013,Toronto,Canada
The
conference, taking place at the same time as the Academic Motherhood
and the Communicating Mothers Conference will explore the topic of
mothers and work and mothering as work across a wide range of
perspectives and themes.
Topics include but are not limited to:
Work/Life
Balance; "The Mommy Wars"; "Opting Out"; Maternal Activism; Motherhood
Movements; Mothers and Leisure; Representations of Working Mothers and
Mothering as Work in Literature, Film, Art, and Social Media; Mothers
and Education; Other Mothering/Co-Mothering; Mothering and Migration;
Migrant Mothers; Transnational Mothering/Mothers; Carework; Motherwork
and Feminism; Maternal Thinking; Maternal Practice;
Breastfeeding/Pregnancy and the Workplace; Reproductive Labour; Social
Reproduction; Families; Fathering; Becoming a Mother; Mothers in Various
Workplaces (Law, Academe, Theatre, The Arts, Medicine, Government etc);
Narratives of Mothers at Work/Mothering as Work, Motherhood Studies and
Maternal Theory on Work and Mothering; Young Mothers and Work;
Empowered Mothering, Feminist Theory/Activism on Mothers/Work;
Matricentric Feminism; Marginalized Mothers/Marginalized Work; Domestic
Labour; Childcare; Mothers and Unions; Public Policy and Mothers;
Maternity Leave, Politics and/of Mother Work; At-Home Mothers; Mothers
and the Labour Movement; Histories of Mothers and Work/Mothering as
Work'; Mothers and Daughters/Mothers and Sons; Mothering and
Neo-Liberalism; LGBTQ Mothers and Work/Mothering as Work; Maternal
Health and Wellbeing; Mothers and Poverty; Motherhood and Globalization;
Disabled Mothers and Work/The Work of Mothering a Disabled Child; and
Mothers and Work and the Law.
We invite submissions for papers as well as workshops from scholars, researchers, students, service providers and activists.
If you are interested in being considered as a presenter for either a paper
and/or workshop, please send a 250 word abstract, a 50-word bio by March 1, 2013 to aoreilly@yorku.ca
** TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT FOR THIS CONFERENCE, ONE MUST BE
A 2013 MEMBER of MIRCI: http://www.
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
140 Holland St. West, PO Box 13022, Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5
Disclosure: I am getting a complementary membership to MIRCI and subscription to the journal in return for posting these updates. It is, however, something I would have agreed to do for free because I think their work is so wonderful.