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

[Deborah Kent Stein]

I am reposting this announcement, as the deadline for abstracts is fast 
coming up on us.  Based on the notice, I think this will be a valuable book 
and will help convey a positive message about blind and otherwise disabled 
parents.

Debbie

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> Subject: [Viewpoints] Call for Submissions: DISABLED MOTHERS
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> 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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