[blparent] Fw: [Viewpoints] Call for Submissions: DISABLED MOTHERS

[Deborah Kent Stein]

This may be of interest to some parents on this list.  Please feel free to 
share it with anyone else who might want to submit an article for this 
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).

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