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Proposals are sought from scholars across all disciplines for the fourth edition of  Race/Gender/Class/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers  (Routledge, 2019). Edited by Rebecca Ann Lind, University of Illinois at Chicago ( rebecca@uic.edu ), the book will examine the consequences, implications, or opportunities associated with issues of diversity (socially constructed differences such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, etc.) in media. The fourth edition should be at least as wide-ranging in scope  as prior editions . Most accepted pieces will present original scholarship. There are three main sections: content, audience, and production.   Content focuses most closely on texts created by media  organizations.  Audience include s media usage, effects of media, audience  interpretations of media content, and studies of user-generated content.  Production  includes studies of media organizatio...

There are a bunch of CFPs from Demeter Press, so I am posting just a summary of the calls with links back to the Demeter Press site with the full details. Warning, all links are PDFs. Good luck! Indigenous Experiences of Pregnancy and Birth [ PDF ] Editors: Dr. Jaime Cidro and Dr. Hannah Tait Neufeld Deadline for Abstracts: March 15, 2015 In North America Indigenous Peoples are diverse in the way they embrace their traditional institutions and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy and birth. Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained women and their families since time immemorial. Biomedical antenatal care practices in North America remain virtually unchanged from the original models developed in Europe in the early twentieth century. New technologies and diagnostic techniques have been added, yet standardized procedures are adhered to because...

CAL L FO R PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection, entitled Interrogating Reproductive Loss: Feminist Writings on Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth  Co-Editors: Emily R.M. Lind & Angie Deveau Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2014 Deadline for Acceptances: July 1, 2014 Deadline for Completed Papers: November 15, 2014 Publication Date: Early 2016 Feminist theories of the body, reproduction, and the institution of motherhood typically focus on issues of rights, autonomy, and choice. These themes become increasingly complicated when applied to questions of reproductive loss. Interrogating Reproductive Loss: Feminist Writings on Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth seeks essays, poems, short stories, and artwork that imagine a feminist epistemology of loss. Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently concep...

CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled Mothering Multiples: (Re)exploring, (Re)presenting and Making Meaning of the Process of Becoming Pregnant, Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting Experiences with Multiples (working title only) Editor: Dr. Kathy Mantas Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2014 There has been an increase of twin babies and higher order multiple birth babies born in Canada and around the world in the past few decades. The wide use of fertility drugs and high-tech procedures are considered to be one of the major contributing factors to the increase in multiple births, but there are others as well. This edited collection seeks to (re)explore, (re)present, make meaning, and contribute to a body of literature that is, at the moment limited, on the process of becoming pregnant, pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, and becoming a parent from the perspective of multiples, and all the layers and complexities this entail...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ROUNDTABLE on LATINA FEMINISM April 25-26, 2014, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH Abstract Deadline JANUARY 20, 2014 Invited Speakers: Edwina Barvosa, University of California, Santa Barbara KarenMary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University You are invited to participate in the 2014 meeting of the Roundtable on Latina Feminism, a forum for discussion of Latina feminist theory and practice. Suggested themes include but are not limited to the following: *Latina Aesthetics *Visual Representations of Latinas *Latina Political Thought *Latina Identity *Latina Embodiment *Latina Activism *History of Latinas in the U.S. *Mestizaje and Mulataje *Latina Sexualities *Queer Latinidad *Latina Pedagogy *Latina Ways of Knowing *Latina Spirituality *Immigration *Coalitions across difference *Works on individual Latina or Latin American feminist writers and theorists Guidelines for Submission: 1. Abstracts should be approximately 1500 wor...

CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection, entitled Feminist Parenting: From Theory to Life Lived Editor: Lyndsay Kirkham Deadline for Abstracts: March 15, 2014 The purpose of this collection is to explore the intersections, disconnects and collaboration between feminist theories, their perceived applications to parenting and the lived realities of feminist parenting. This book will explore a variety of feminist theories and how they relate to all aspects of parenting: from pregnancy and birth to breastfeeding and the decision to live childfree. We welcome submissions from researchers, students, activists, artists, mothers, fathers, children, grandparents, and community members; we encourage submissions of both scholarly chapters and creative works that explore a diverse definition of feminist parenting. Topics can include (but are not limited to): Exploration of feminist scholarship and perceived contributions to feminist parenting, re...

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled Mothering, Mothers and Sex Work Co-Editors: Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and Monique Marie De Jong DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: March 1, 2014 In a transnational, intersectional framework, this book will discuss theorizations, lived experiences of and legal and governance frameworks affecting mothers and their children who are impacted by or involved with sex work. This book will also examine how mothers affected by sex work are understood in popular discourse and discounted as good or "real" mothers in Western patriarchal societies. We encourage submissions that interrogate popular discourses about mothering, virtue and demonization, especially those focusing on resistance and agency by mothers. We welcome submissions from researchers, students, activists, community workers, artists and writers and papers that explore meanings and experiences of mothering and sex work from all academic disciplines inc...

CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submission for an edited collection entitled Intimate Care: Doulas and the Birthing Body (working title) Co-Editors: Angela Castañeda and Julie Searcy DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: March 1, 2014 Publication Date: 2015 The goal of this edited volume is to add to the literature on birth and mothering through the perspective of doulas. Our research seeks to focus on the body and the multiple ways it is materialized through intimate practices. By focusing on bodies and the knowledge they produce, we seek to illustrate the varied power dynamics surrounding doula work. We define doula work broadly to include birth, postpartum and full spectrum doulas. We want to highlight the voices of doulas and those they work with (care providers, mothers, partners) through creative stories, essays and critical scholarly work. We welcome a cross-cultural approach, which includes both stories and scholarly research that raises critical questions about the socia...

CALL FOR PAPERS  Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection Birth and its Meanings: Representations of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting Editors: Dr. Nadya Burton DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2014 Representations of pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, loss and early parenting are simultaneously diverse (grounded in different social, religious and cultural contexts), and normative (they tend to reflect the status quo, and often romanticized notions of these profound life events). This collection will explore diverse cultural representations of childbirth and related events in an effort both to unpack and unsettle stereotypical representations, as well as to engage representations that challenge, transgress and resist cultural norms. Reflections on a wide range of cultural representations will be included (literature, poetry, film, television, reality tv, painting, sculpture, new media, photography and others). Creative works (narrative, images...

CALL FOR PAPERS   Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled   Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Areas   Editors: Dr. Tatjana Tak!eva and Dr. Arlene Sgoutas   DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: July 31, 2013 With the increase of conflict areas worldwide, this collection will look at the experiences of women mothering in conflict areas. Recent examples from the Middle East, The Balkans, Sudan, Somalia, the Congo, Peru and other places around the globe affected by military and civil-ethnic conflict have shown that violence is often gendered and has a unique impact on women and mothers. The aim of this collection is to engage with the nature and meaning of motherhood and mothering during times of war and/or in zones experiencing the threat of war. Topics can also include (but are not limited to): Mothering in occupied lands, refugee camps, disaster zones, military conflict; mothers and sexual violence; children bo...

CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection   "This is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like": Perspectives on the Slutwalk Movement Editors: Alyssa Teekah, Erika Jane Scholz, May Friedman and Andrea O'Reilly DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: April 15, 2013! PUBLICATION DATE: May 2014 We seek various and diverse feminist perspectives on Slutwalk as both experience and movement. In April 2011, a team of five people put together Slutwalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In the name of campus "safety", Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized". The sentiment of those in the over 3000 crowd that day were shared by folks around the globe - leading to over 200 Slutwalks internation...

CALL FOR PAPERS Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) Supporting and Empowering Mothers in the Academe:  Strategies for Institutional   Change and Individual Agency June 24-27, 2013, Toronto, Canada  The conference, "Supporting and Empowering Mothers in the Academe: Strategies for Institutional Change and Individual Agency," will examine the subject of mothers in the academe from scholarly and activist perspectives by drawing on academic papers and interactive workshops. It will join scholars that specialize in academic motherhood research with individuals and agencies that support mothers in the academe. According to recent studies of both academic women and mothers, gender discrimination in general, and that targeting academic mothers, is pervasive in academia. According to a recent Statistics Canada Report women comprise only 35.6 percent of all tenure track/tenured university faculty in Ontario. In 2009 a...

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 L...

Demeter Press will be publishing an edited collection, A Reader, on Mothering-Motherhood Across Differences in Maternal Subjectives/Experiences . We have in place chapters on Latina Mothers, Aboriginal Mothers, Queer Mothers, Young Mothers and so forth. We are seeking chapters on the following mothers. Chapters will be approximately 25 pages in length and will explore theories on this particular group of mothers as well as the experiences of such mothers. The chapters will be due July 1, 2013. The  book will be published late 2013 or early 2014.  If you are interested in writing a chapter on one of the following, please send a bio of your expertise on the topic by Jan 15, 2013 to Dr. Andrea O'Reilly, editor of the collection,  aoreilly@yorku.ca . Information on Demeter Press available on our site  www.demeterpress.org   1) Older Mothers 2) Low Income/Poor Mothers 3) Single Mothers 4) Immigrant/Refuge/Migrant Mothers 5) Workin...

CALL FOR PAPERS ( Deadline 1 December 2012 ) - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY TO COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS WORKING ON MOTHERHOOD IN  ALL DISCIPLINES. Motherhood in post-1968 European Women's Writing: 'Cross-cultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogues' Thursday-Saturday 24-26 October 2013 Venue: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, U.K. This conference is the culmination of the AHRC-funded Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature Network, and follows five thematic workshops held between May 2012 and June 2013. The main aim of the Network is to raise the profile of contemporary literature as a field of study of motherhood in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural forum, and to explore how insights from literary studies might contribute to studies of motherhood in other disciplines. The conference aims to continue the cross-cultu...

CALL FOR PAPERS COMMUNICATING MOTHERHOOD/MOTHERS COMMUNICATING "HIGH CULTURE" TO POP CULTURE TO NEW SOCIAL MEDIA May 9-11 2013, Toronto, Ontario Canada We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, community workers,bloggers, mothers and others who research in this area. Cross-cultural and comparative work is encouraged. We are open to a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines and creative submissions including visual art, literature and performance art. This conference will explore the nature, status, representation and experience of mothers and motherhood in various historical, cultural and literary contexts, and examine the many ways in which mothers have been and are affected by, viewed, and/or challenged contemporary cultural norms and dominant ideologies and representations of their role. Topics may include but are not restricted to: Representations and depictions o...

CALL FOR PAPERS The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 4.1 of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (JMI) to be published in spring/summer 2013. Mothering, Education, Maternal Pedagogies and Motherhood Studies The journal will explore the topic of Mothering, Education, Maternal Pedagogies and Motherhood Studies from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, government agencies and workers, artists, mothers, and others who work or research in this area. Cross- cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject. Topics can include (but are not limited to): Normative & disruptive discourses about motherhood and education; pedagogical othermothering & midwifery; mothering in the academy; teaching & learning from mothers at the margins (mo...