[blparent] Fw: [Viewpoints] Call for Submissions: DISABLED MOTHERS
Deborah Kent Stein
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Sun Aug 28 04:46:39 UTC 2011
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anthology.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an
edited collection on Disabled MOTHERS*
Co-editors: Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor
Publication Date: 2014
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: DECEMBER 31, 2011!
While there are several books on raising children with disabilities, the
literature is scant on experiences of disabled women who are raising
children OR the experiences of those parented
by a woman with disabilities. Bringing together disability with mothering
has the potential to challenge dominant narratives of both mothering AND
disability. Noticing dominant ideas, meanings, and/or stories/narratives
(normative discourses) regarding both 'mothering' and 'disability' expose
the limits beyond which disabled mothers live their daily lives.
The goal of this edited collection is to add to literatures on mothering
and disability through providing stories by disabled mothers or their
children as well as chapters of scholarly research and theorizing. We
intend
that both stories and research in this collection will raise critical
questions about the social and cultural meanings of disability and
mothering. Whether a birth mother, an adoptive mother,a foster mother, a
co-mother, someone mothered by a disabled woman, or someone whose research
explores disabled mothering, we invite you to submit to this collection.
Suggested topics include, but are not
limited to:
How are disabled women discouraged from
having children? How does the medical model of disability shape the
meanings
assigned to disabled mothers? How do chronic illnesses affect mothering?
Are
disabled mothers healthy mothers? How do the social and cultural models of
disability shape how we understand disabled mothers and mothering? Are
disabled mothers oppressed? How do issues of race,class, and sexuality
affect disabled mothers and their families? Should disabled mothers 'pass'
as normal? How are pregnancy and birth experiences shaped by disability?
How do
children experience and understand a disabled mother? What support is
needed
and received by disabled mothers? How does the built environment, both
public and private, shape the experiences of disabled mothers? What kinds
of
issues are there with children's schools, health professionals and/or
children's attitudes? What form, if any, does social and political activism
take? Do legal remedies work to assist disabled mothers (for example,
disability as a protected category in the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms or the Americans with Disabilities Act)? How does a mother's
disability expose the expectations of mothering? How does a mother's
disability expose the assumptions about disability? How is society
disabling
of mothering? How can we 'do' disabled mothering differently?
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts should be 250 words. Please also
include a brief biography (50 words) with citizenship.
Please send to gfilax at shaw.ca and
detaylor at cabrillo.edu
Deadline for Abstracts is December 31, 2011
Accepted papers of 4000-5000 words (15-20
pages) will be due October 15, 2012
and should conform to MLA citation format.
*Tanya Titchkosky argues that referring to "disabled people" is preferable
because it emphasizes disablement as a social process that prevents certain
people from access to resources and goods available to others. "People with
disabilities" implies that disability is not part of what it is to be a
person and leaves disability as
a problem. We agree with Titchkosky and therefore our choice of the title
for this collection is "Disabled Mothers". (See Tanya Titchkosky (2003)
Disability, Self, and Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
chapter
2).
DEMETER PRESS
140 Holland St. West, PO Box 13022
Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5 (tel) 905-775-5215
http://www.demeterpress.org
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