The Association For Research on Mothering, York University, Toronto

**BIG congratulations to Rishma Dunlop,
(Demeter Press Literary Editor and Former Literary Editor for the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering) for being awarded a Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair beginning in January 2010 at Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.

**BIG congratulations to Jeanette Corbiere Lavell
(co-editor, ‘Until our Hearts are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth’) for being elected President, Native Women’s Association of Canada
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/native-womens-group-elects-new-leader/article1304107/
AND
Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case 2009 Recipients
Jeannette Corbiere Lavell
http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/dates/gg/recip-laure/2009-eng.html

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1) NEW CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS FROM DEMETER PRESS:

a) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED VOLUME
Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom

Co-edited by Deborah Byrd, English & Women’s and Gender Studies, Lafayette College & Fiona Green, Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg

REVISED EXTENDED DEADLINE: OCTOBER 19, 2009!

What is the relationship between mothering and teaching? Is there anything distinctive about maternal pedagogies as conceptualized and implemented by feminist women and men or by feminist communities and organizations? How is maternal pedagogy practiced as an aspect of feminist mothering? How does maternal pedagogy intersect with feminist motherliness, cultural bearing and matroreform? How are maternal pedagogies influenced by the larger cultural context in which they’re deployed? What goals and strategies are central to practitioners of maternal pedagogies as they work within specific settings and with particular kinds of individuals or groups (for example, teen mothers, elementary or grad school students, the families of children with disabilities, co-workers in an office setting)? Are maternal pedagogies transferable from one context to another (for example, from the home to the corporate world, from academia to community activism and/or the non-profit sector)? In what ways do maternal pedagogies as practiced by feminists resemble or differ from other kinds of feminist pedagogies or “pedagogies of the oppressed”? Do maternal pedagogies tend to blur the distinction between teacher and learner and if so, how and why? How do issues of gender, race, class, (dis)ability, religion/spirituality and sexual orientation operate in specific maternal pedagogies? How do maternal pedagogies of the past or of other countries differ from those in modern-day North America?
The above questions are meant to suggest the range of issues that we hope this collection will address. We are interested in receiving submissions from people of varying backgrounds, views, and interests, whether they be scholars, lawyers, parents, healthcare professionals, community activists, or employees of nonprofit organizations, government agencies, for-profit businesses, or educational systems and institutions.
A 250-word abstract and a 50-word biographical statement are due by October 19, 2009 and should be emailed with the subject heading MATERNAL PEDAGOGIES to both co-editors (byrdd@lafayette.edu & f.green@uwinnipeg.ca)
The essay, which should be 15-18 pages double spaced, will be due May 1, 2010.
Anticipated publication date is fall 2011, with a book launch at the October 2011 Association for Research on Mothering conference, which will focus on “Mothering, Education, Teaching, Learning, and Pedagogy.”

b) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED VOLUME

South Asian Mothering
<>Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection by Jasjit Kaur Sangha to be published in 2011.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: NOVEMBER 1, 2009!
This edited collection seeks to unravel the complexity of South Asian mothering by initiating dialogue on what it means to be a South Asian mother. How do embedded cultural values influence South Asian mothering practices? How does non-conformity to South Asian norms and customs affect South Asian mothers? How are South Asian mothers affected by the process of migration? What are the barriers and difficulties experienced by South Asian mothers? What is beneficial about being a South Asian mother? What are the similarities and differences among South Asian mothers?

Theoretical, narrative, arts-informed creative submissions, and international submissions are welcome.
Topics can include (but are not limited to):

South Asian mothering and: Religion and Spirituality; Migration ; Activism & Resistance; Sexuality; Queer mothering; Feminism; Oppression - based on race, class, caste, disability etc.; Interracial / Intercultural relationships; Language; Joint families and mother-in-laws; Arranged marriage; Cultural traditions; Single mothering; Violence; Sharam (shame) & izzat (honour); Age

Submission Guidelines
Abstracts: 250 words in length.
Deadline for Abstracts: November 1, 2009
Academic Papers: 15-18 pages, Narratives: 8-12 pages, Creative submissions: 5-8 pages
Deadline for Papers: March 7, 2010
Please submit proposals to: Jasjit Kaur Sangha jasjit.mothering@gmail.com

c) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED VOLUME
Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives
Editors: Michelle Walks and Naomi McPherson Publication Date: 2012/2013.
<>This anthology will explore the topic and experiences of mothering from a cross-cultural perspective. Although the collection will primarily focus on cultural anthropological work, we welcome submissions from all four fields in anthropology (linguistic, physical/biological, archeology, and cultural). We encourage writings of recent fieldwork, welcoming the representations of local and global perspectives, and writings that represent all points of the insider-outsider spectrum, including auto-ethnography. Writing styles may vary from field notes to ethnographic fiction to traditional academic writing to poetry to photographic representations. While ethnographic (research-based) submissions will make up the majority of the volume, theoretical submissions are also welcome.

The intent is to compile works of geographical and experiential diversity that demonstrate various family forms, as well as styles, contexts and problems of mothering, from an anthropological perspective. We would like to focus on the strengths, empowerment, and agency of mothering. Please note that the editors embrace a broad, inclusive understanding of “mothering”.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):
Mothering in immigrant and/or refugee communities; mothering in locales of war and/or terror and/or perpetual protest; rural and urban mothering; mothering after the loss of a child and/or miscarriage and/or abortion; the relationship of mothering to infertility and/or miscarriage; the relationship of mothering to NRTs; Indigenous mothering; queer mothering; mothering in communes and/or communal mothering; feminist mothering in the West and/or globally; mothering done by nannies, siblings, aunts, grandparents, co-parents, fathers, non-biological parents, step-mothering; surrogate mothering; primate mothering; allomothering; archeological research on/related to mothering; mothering “in the field”; mothering and the internet; mothering and dis/ability; political and/or activist mothering; mothering in multicultural/multi-racial/multi-ethnic families; mothering & post-partum depression and/or dealing with other mental health issues.

Submission guidelines:
Submissions should be 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages) (inc. notes + sources). Please also include a 50-word bio.
Please use the American Anthropological Association style.
Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2010.
Please send submissions and inquiries directly to both:
Dr. Naomi McPherson: Naomi.mcpherson@ubc.ca
Michelle Walks: mwalks@alumni.sfu.ca

2) CALLS FOR PAPERS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON MOTHERING (JARM)

i) Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War and Social Justice JARM VOL. 12.1 (due for publication spring/summer 2010)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The journal will explore the topic from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, anti-violence activists and other professionals and community workers. 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):
Nationalism, militarism, and motherhood; violence against mothers and children; mothers and war across history and culture; motherhood and terrorism; mothers and human rights; peace building and peace/anti-militarism activism by mothers; peace keeping strategies of mothers; mothers against militarism; marriage, motherhood, and pregnancy in the military; Maternal Thinking; the Ethics of Care/the Politics of Peace; women writers and the critique of war; rhetoric of masculinity and violence against mothers; teaching social justice in the classroom as mothering for peace; educating children about war; parenting in war; teaching non-violence to children; mothers’ roles in post-conflict reconstruction; state violence against mothers; racism, ethnicity, and peace; impact of prolific small arms and light weapons on women; female suicide-bombers; women's contributions to (formal) peace agreements; suffering and survival of mothers in war; mothers and the dismantling of apartheid; mothers as activists in violent conflicts or militarized zones; roles of mothers in conflict; mothers as journalists during wartime; impact of violent conflict on mothers as refugees (asylum seekers and/or internally displaced persons); mothers of sons and/or daughters who serve in the military; gender-based violence of women in war and conflict; mothering and loss (of husbands/children); children and loss of mothers; mothers and children left behind in military communities: mothers who kill; domestic violence against mothers; the war on mothers; rape and/as terrorism; aboriginal mothers/children and residential schooling; social justice organizations for mothers (from MADD to Mothers Against War); patriotic mothering; activist mothering; representations/images of mothers and violence, war, and social justice issues; public policy and mother activists; legal responses to mother activists; reproductive violence; mother activists within indigenous communities; LBGT mothers and social justice issues; victims of violence in the military.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Articles should be 15-18 pages (3750 words) including references.
All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.

Please see our style guide for complete details: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html

DEADLINE: SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY NOVEMBER 1, 2009

** TO SUBMIT WORK ONE MUST BE A MEMBER OF ARM http://www.yorku.ca/arm/armmembership.html

Please direct your submissions to:
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM),
726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: 416-736-2100 X60366 Email: arm@yorku.ca

iii) Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief JARM VOL. 12.2 (due for publication fall/winter 2010)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2010

The journal will explore the topic of Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, health care workers, and other professionals and community workers. 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):

The grief process, emotion and grief; social and cultural support, bereavement self-help and peer-support; bereavement counseling and therapy; ‘good grief’; the role of health care workers; spiritual care; loss through reproductive and prenatal technology; loss through miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, SIDS; postnatal depression; death of a child through illness, accident, suicide, or homicide; missing or abducted children; death of an adult child through AIDS, in the military, or through violence; infanticide; coping with guilt; child loss and teen moms; mothering surviving children; mothering after the death of a partner; lesbians and child loss; fathers, bereavement and grief; bereavement, grief and depression; the spousal/partner relationship, and relearning life after the death of a child; mothering after losing one’s own parent; representations of widows as mothers, of grief and bereavement in culture and the media; identity of grieving mothers; grieving mothers in the workplace; mothering children whose mother has died: foster mothers, stepmothers, othermothers; grief following a child’s disability diagnosis, grieving the loss of a “perfect” child; loss of potential motherhood through infertility or abortion; mothers without custody, loss of child to child protection agencies, or incarceration (mother’s or child’s or adult child’s); estrangements between mothers and children; motherless daughters and sons; role loss/exit; divorce; loss of stepchildren through divorce; adoption; measuring loss; matricide, Demeter/Persephone myth; critique of ‘stages of grief’ models

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Articles should be 15-18 pages (3750 words) including references.
All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide for complete details: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 1, 2010

** TO SUBMIT WORK ONE MUST BE A MEMBER OF ARM: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/armmembership.html

Please direct your submissions to:
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
726 Atkinson, York University,
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
416-736-2100 X60366 email: arm@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/arm

3) ARM CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

i) Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built
October 22-25, 2009, York University, Toronto, Canada
Featuring Over 150 papers and 45 panels, performances and workshops including:
Mothering and Environmental Activism; Breastfeeding; Motherhood and Sustainability; . Mothering in Public Spaces; Motherlines; Motherwork, Community and Health; Mothering and Food Provision; Ecology and Motherhood; Maternal Challenges and Resistance

Invited Keynote Speakers Include:

DR. SANDRA STEINGRABER (Thursday, October 22 - 7:30pm-9:30pm, Vari Hall A, York University)
"The Environmental Life of Children: Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Child Health and Mothering Practices"
TICKETS: $20 + gst: https://dce.yorku.ca/arm/registrationform.aspx

DR. SHERILYN MACGREGOR (Friday, October 23 )
"Care, Citizenship and Climate Change: New/Old Challenges for Ecofeminist Politics"

DR. HEIDI HUTNER (Thursday, October 22)
"Contexts of Ecofeminism, Mothering and Pollution in Contemporary Film and Literature"

**ALSO SPECIAL PRE-CUT SCREENING OF
The Motherhood Movement ~ You Say You Want A Revolution, The Film (Saturday, Oct 24/ 4 screenings) The film, ‘The Motherhood Movement’ – You Say You Want a Revolution captures the first ever, international summit on maternal activism. Directed by Joy Rose, Produced by The Museum Of Motherhood, in collaboration with the Association For Research On Mothering and The Motherhood Foundation Inc (MFI). The film seeks to promote, showcase, and make visible maternal discussion and to disseminate information on the subject of Feminist/activist Mothers and the missions of International Maternal agencies. Over 23 organizations were represented at the first ever global summit at the Association For Research and Mothering Conference (ARM), York University on October 25, 26th in Toronto, CA 2008.
For the full conference program, online registration and information, please visit our website: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/MotheringandtheEnvironment.html

We acknowledge the generous support of our York University sponsors:
Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Mental Health Research; Faculty of Graduate Studies; Faculty of Environmental Studies; ORU-Centre for Refugee Studies(CRS); York University Graduate Students' Association; Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA & PS); McLaughlin College.

Special thanks to the Vaughan Foundation and the York U50 fund.

ii) The International Academy HAGIA and the International Feminists for a Gift Economy Network present:

A (M)otherworld is Possible: Two Feminist Visions Matriarchal Studies The Gift Economy
October 23-25, 2009, York University, Toronto, Canada
Panels and sessions with invited keynote speakers from all over the world, special guests, and presenters, including:
Prof. Barbara Mann (USA, Seneca), Prof. Wahu Kaara (Kenya, Africa), Prof. Pilwha Chang (Korea), Genevieve Vaughan (USA, Italy), Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany), Mag. Marina Menses (Mexico, Juchitàn), Prof. Valentina Pakyntein (India, Khasi), Sobonfu Somé (Burkina Faso, Africa), Agnes Williams (USA, Seneca).

Topics in the Gift Paradigm section include: Mothering and Gift Economy; Gift or Exchange?; Indigenous Peoples and the Gift Economy; Generalizing Gift Giving; Gift Economy and the Environment; The Gift in Africa, Asia and the Arctic; Gift Economy, Feminism, Anarchy; Political significance of the Gift

Topics in the Matriarchal Studies section include: Matriarchies as Mother-centered Societies; Mothers in Indigenous Matriarchal Societies: Iroquois in the USA, Berber-Kabyle in North Africa, Palau in Micronesia, Khasi in India, Juchitecas in Mexico; Aspects of Matriarchal Spirituality: Andean Spirituality, Holy Birth in Ancient Greece, Mother and Daughter Star Constellations, World Icons of Mothers and Grandmothers; What can we learn from Matriarchal Societies?; Matriarchal Visions of a Future of Peace

The International Feminists for a Gift Economy is a network which promotes the gift economy as a maternal alternative to Patriarchal Capitalism. www.gift-economy.com

Akademie Hagia promotes the study of matriarchal patterns in indigenous societies past and present and proposes Matriarchal - not a mirror image of Patriarchal - Culture as the way to peace. www.AkademieHagia.com

For the full conference program, online registration and information, please visit our website: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/MotheringandtheEnvironment.html
*(to register choose "day rates" with the Mothering and Environment general registration page/Saturday/Sunday registration also include Friday night reception and keynote speakers).

Also see: www.motherworldconference.org

iii) Mothering and Migration: (Trans)nationalisms, Globalization, and Displacement February 18-20, 2010, Puerto Rico Convention Centre
Co-hosted by the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the University of Puerto Rico.
Featuring 100+ papers and presentations and a Keynote Address by Velma Pollard.
Conference program and online registration will be available for this conference in the coming weeks…please keep an eye out.

4) NEW ARM CONFERENCES/CALL FOR PAPERS:

i) Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Narrative
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University will co-host a one-day symposium at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute on Thursday, April 08, 2010.
ARM and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University are now seeking submissions for the symposium. The symposium will explore academic mothers’ experiences from both narrative and theory. While previous panel discussions and collections such as PhD Momma and Parenting and Professing examined being a mother academic from narrative or “lived experience” and others, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering issue on Mothers in the Academe, explored mother academics’ experiences from a theoretical perspective, this is the first symposium to do so incorporating both narrative and theory. The symposium will explore how both research and narrative can inform contemporary understandings of academic motherhood, particularly in regard to strategies of resistance and empowerment.

Paper proposals should strengthen the dialogue among academic motherhood, intellectual ideas, and personal narrative. The symposium will explore the topic of Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars across disciplines. The symposium will run from 9-5 and will include approximately 25 papers, with each panelist having 20 minutes to present their paper. To present at this symposium, you must be a member of ARM. The symposium will coincide with the NeMLA conference (April 07-11, 2010) at McGill University. The Institute is located at 2170 Bishop Street, Montreal Quebec.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):
the maternal wall, "opting out", mentoring and modeling, being a professor mother, work-life balance, negotiating or resisting the maternal wall, single mothers and academic work, graduate student mothering, being a mother on the tenure track, being a pregnant professor, maternity leave and academic mothering, poverty and academic mothering, juggling mothering and academic expectations, intersections between feminism and academic mothering, being an academic artist and mothering, race and academic mothering, academic job searches and mothering, teaching and mothering, sexuality and academic mothering, male organizing principles and academic mothering, the academic schedule and mothering, fertility and academic mothering, challenging assumptions about academic mothers, ethics and academic mothering, “having it all” as academic mothers, adoption and academic mothering, networking, strategies for surviving academic mothering, class and academic mothering, race and academic mother mentors, social reproduction and academic mothering, motherhood closet, being out as a mother, second/third shift in the home, academic culture and mothering, maternal pedagogy, myth of ideal worker/ideal mother, intensive mothering and academe, unboundedness of mother work and academic work, childcare, fathering, trailing spouses, academic couples, biological clock, university policies and mothering, timing and spacing of children, perceptions of mothers in academe, discrimination avoidance, discrimination against mothers in academe, motherhood penalty, “price of motherhood”, adjunct work, teaching and motherhood, benefits of motherhood on teaching and research.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Abstracts due by December 01, 2010. Scholars interested in submitting proposals to this symposium are invited to submit proposals to D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein at lhallst@bu.edu or Andrea O’Reily aoreilly@yorku.ca

ii) ARM/MAMAPALOOZA 3rd annual Conference, May 27-29, 2010, Nola Studios, New York, NY
“Representing Motherhood: Mothers in the Arts, Literature, Media and Popular Culture”

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, community agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts, and other alternative formats.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):
Representing the Maternal in Film, Video, Art, Music, and Theater; Theorizing Motherhood and Representation; Race, Representation and Motherhood; Maternal Ambivalence in visual culture; Countering Media Discourses on Motherhood; Maternal Loss, Depression, and Domestic Violence; Performing Feminist Mothering in Practice and Expression; Mother Writer: Writing Motherhood; Creating Outlaw Children; Imaging LGBT Mothers and Maternity; “Late bloomers”: Post-Maternal Mother Artists; Representing Motherhood on the Internet; The Politics of Motherhood and Spirituality in Music and Visual Culture; Motherhood, Art, and Creativity; Healing and Creativity; The Performance of the Maternal or Performing Motherhood; Mothering and Disability: Producing New Paradigms of Normal; Motherhood in the News: Mothers as Newsmaker; Documenting Motherhood: Maternal Documentaries; Mothers, Motherhood and Photography; Behind the Camera: Mothers as Filmmakers, Directors, Producers; Mother Musicians across Musical Genres: Rock, Rap, Folk, Blues, Jazz, Country Narratives of Creative Mothers: Moms who “Rock,” Expressing: Imaging Breastfeeding Mothers, Mommy Bloggers: Re-Writing Motherhood, etc.; Dealing with (Post-partum) Depression by Making Creative Work; Pregnant moms; Celebrity mothers; How images of fathers impact motherhood representation; News media coverage of foster moms; Moms in politics; teen mothers in film or television; advertising as aimed at pregnant/new Moms; Mothers as consumers; Mothering and the representation of Class

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Meredith Michaels, author of The Mommy Myth
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 5, 2010
*Please email 250 word presentation abstract (including title) and 50 word bio to arm@yorku.ca by January 5, 2010

*One must be an ARM member to present: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/armmembership.html

i)“Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering” October 21-24, 2010 at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2010.

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, and workers, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):
the economics of maintaining sustainable family systems; mothering, appropriate technology and economics; mothering and microcredit; mothering and economic activism; mothering and economic activism through the arts; mothering with reduced resources; social and economic supports for mothering; mothering within the neoliberal context; motherwork and valuation of motherwork, mothering and the economics of unpaid labour; mothers-as-providers, mother-led cooperatives; the effects of privatization/commodification on women; mothering and the economics of raising children with disabilities; the economics of maternal mortality rates; the “selling” of mothering and the economics of consumerism; consumption and the marketing of mothering; the economics of reproductive technologies and surrogacy; structural adjustment policies and mothering; the financial implications for mothers of family law reforms and welfare state developments, the economic impacts of environmental degradation on mothering; quantifications of mothering/caregiving/parenting as a part of the base structure of the economic productivity of society; children as economic assets/burdens; the actual value of domestic/unpaid labour; motherhood and the gender pay gap, mothering and the feminization of poverty; mothering, occupational segregation and the wage gap; the impacts of economic globalization on mothering and kinship networks; the envisioning and articulation of more human-centered economic systems and policies to enhance mothering/caregiving practices; transformations of male breadwinner-female caretaker models; the economics of caregiving/parenting in nontraditional households; mothering and the “new home economics”; mothering, feminist economics and social justice; mothering and welfare policies; mothering and health care costs; the commodification of domestic labour; global and transnational motherhood, transnational families in the new global economy; the economics of the second shift; global care chains; mothering/caregiving/parenting and economic justice, motherwork in organisations; mothers’ economic transactions; mothers’ labour paid and unpaid; mothers in enterprise and mothers in alternative enterprise; mothers and non-monetary economic flows; mothers in the workplace; homeschooling mothers; mothers as consumers; mothers and Marxism; mothers and neo-liberalism; mothers in a capitalist economy; mothers in a diverse economy; mothers and food economies; mother’s milk and breastfeeding; the economic roles of mothers in undeveloped economies; the economic roles of mothers in non-Western cultures; mothering and economic subjectivity; mothers as alternative economic activists.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Martha Albertson Fineman, author of The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency
Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood
Eva Feder Kittay, author of Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency
Nancy Folbre, author of The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
Bonnie Fox, author of Becoming Parents, Creating Gender
Sally Miller, author of Edible Action: Food Activism & Alternative Economics
Marilyn Waring, author of If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics

If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250 word abstract and a 50 word bio by March 1, 2010 to: arm@yorku.ca

5) JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON MOTHERING

FORTHCOMING JARM PUBLICATION NOVEMBER 2009

Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (JARM)
“MOTHERING AND POVERTY” Vol. 11.2 (fall/winter 2009).
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/journal.html

6) FORTHCOMING DEMETER PRESS RELEASES!!!

i) Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking: Philosophy, Politics, Practice
(Andrea O’Reilly, ed). PUBLICATION DATE: October 2009
*For full information, table of contents and ordering information - please visit our website: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/MaternalThinking.html
*Please make sure your library orders as well!

ii) Mothering Canada: InterdisciplinaryVoices/La maternité au Canada: voix interdisciplinaires
(Shawna Geissler, Lynn Loutzenhiser, Jocelyne Praud, and Leesa Streifler, eds). PUBLICATION DATE: JANUARY 2010
*For full information, table of contents and ordering information - please visit our website: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/motheringcanada.html

7) RECENT DEMETER PRESS RELEASES:
*ALL DEMETER PRESS TITLES ARE NOW ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH AMAZON.COM
http://www.amazon.com

i) Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Jane Satterfield) May 2009
*For full information, table of contents and ordering information - please visit our website: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/daughtersofempire.html

ii) Mothering and Blogging: The Radical Art of the MommyBlog
(May Friedman and Shana L. Calixte, eds). May 2009
*For full information, table of contents and ordering information - please visit our website: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/MotheringandBlogging.html

9) BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS NETWORK website! We are pleased to announce the establishment of the website of the INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS NETWORK, the first ever international consortium of motherhood organizations now with 50 plus members worldwide. Please do visit our website at www.internationalmothersnetwork.org

10) NEW MUSEUM OF MOTHERHOOD WEBSITE…please visit us… http://www.museumofmotherhood.org
The Motherhood Foundation will establish a world-class International Museum Of Motherhood, in Seneca Falls in 2011 to display the herstory of North American Mothers, promote women’s studies and the evolution of family, while honoring the achievements of women who are mothers in perpetuity. However immediate goals dictate the necessity of a broad reaching internet campaign and virtual display of the initial phases of The Museum Of Motherhood to build momentum and generate a wave of interest that will increase the financial momentum necessary to realize this vision

11) COMMUNITY CALLS FOR PAPERS/SUBMISSIONS/CONTESTS

i) Breastfeeding and Feminism 2010: Rethinking Public Health Approaches
A symposium and edited collection, organized by Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, and Miriam Labbok
Symposium Date: March 20, 2010
(March 19 is reserved for a meeting with presenters)
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Since 2005 academic scholars, practitioners, and activists have gathered together for a regular symposium on Breastfeeding and Feminism. Dr. Paige Hall Smith began this tradition as the Linda Arnold Carlisle Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, inviting Dr. Bernice Hausman, author of Mother’s Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture, to give the keynote lecture at the inaugural event. The following year, Dr. Miriam Labbok became the director of the Carolina Breastfeeding Institute in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and CBI became a co-sponsor of the symposia in 2007. The 2007 and 2009 symposia were funded in part by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Women’s Health. Over the years, the symposia have illuminated major constraints mothers experience as they seek to breastfeed their children in the 21st century. Breastfeeding and Feminism 2010 seeks to identify and analyze how public health approaches to promoting breastfeeding might be advised by feminist insights to develop comprehensive, politically knowledgeable, and culturally sensitive interventions. The symposium and book are transdisciplinary efforts to address breastfeeding as a public health priority, using feminist perspectives to emphasize the impact of gender and other forms of social stratification on individual women as they feed their babies. The editors seek collaborators to develop a new approach to understand how current social systems and cultural practices influence women to not breastfeed or otherwise keep them from achieving their breastfeeding goals. Breastfeeding and Feminism will focus primarily on the United States, but also address international and cross-cultural issues.

Please send 250 word abstracts as pdf attachments to Paige Hall Smith (phsmith@uncg.edu) by October 15. Notification of acceptance to the symposium by November 15.

The symposium is aimed at a public audience interested in feminist, public health, clinical, legal, sociocultural and historical approaches to breastfeeding in culture and society. The book is targeted more specifically to a public health audience, including those who identify as feminists and those who are interested in learning more about how feminist perspectives impact public health approaches. Overall, Breastfeeding and Feminism: Rethinking Public Health Approaches aims to engage a diverse, broad, and inclusive audience eager to understand how feminist analyses can contribute to new thinking about motherhood, breastfeeding, and gender issues in public health theory and practice. For a background on the symposium visit www.uncg.edu/hhp/cwhw.
<>Acceptance to present at the symposium will involve participation in a two-day event March 19-20, 2010. Presenters meet to discuss the book on the first day and present to the public on the second.

ii) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
3rd Biennial Nursing Conference
Saturday, January 30, 2010, Toldo Health Education Centre,
UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Featuring a Keynote Address by:
Vanessa Burkoski, RN(EC), BScN, MScN, Doctorate Health Administration “Shaping Policy: Evidence Before and After”
Guidelines for Submission: A one-page abstract of a completed study or a clinical paper will be accepted by e-mail or fax. Submit two copies of your abstract: one must state the complete title, author(s)’ name(s), credentials, institutional affiliation, phone/fax, and e-mail of all authors. Indicate whether a paper or poster presentation is sought. The second abstract copy should include the title and mode of presentation (paper or poster) with no other identifying information. If more than one author is listed, indicate who is serving as the corresponding author.

Abstract preparation: Abstracts should not exceed 300 words for research presentations and 200 words for clinical or theoretical papers, using single-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font. Margins must be one and one-half inches on left, and one inch on right, top and bottom. Center the title in upper-case font. Accepted abstracts will be printed as submitted in the conference proceedings. Research abstracts must be structured and should include the following headings: Purpose of study, rationale and significance, methodology, sample and setting, results, and conclusions. Clinical and theoretical papers should be submitted in paragraph format and should not exceed two paragraphs. Clinical practice abstracts shall demonstrate how new evidence, technologies, or processes are advancing and redefining nursing practice, leadership, and/or patient outcomes. Abstracts will be selected on the basis of merit through blind review. Twenty percent of accepted abstracts will be reserved for graduate students. Abstracts reflecting work-in-progress are welcome. All Abstracts must be submitted on or before October 30, 2009. An abstract can be submitted online at (www.uwindsor.ca/nursing/ conference) or can be sent to Ms. Susan Rotondi by e-mail at srotond@uwindsor.ca or fax: 519-973-7084. Late submissions will not be reviewed.

Abstract Selection and Notification: If your abstract is accepted for presentation, you will be notified via e-mail by November 20, 2009. Each oral presentation will be allowed 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for Q & A.
<>For more information about the conference, please visit: www.uwindsor.ca/nursing/conference

For registration information, please contact:
Ms. Susan Rotondi or Ms. Anne Dennahower
University of Windsor, Faculty of Nursing
519-253-3000, extension 6129 or 2260
E-mail: srotond@uwindsor.ca

For any other questions, please contact
Maher M. El-Masri, RN, PhD, Conference Chair
University of Windsor, Faculty of Nursing
519-253-3000, extension 2400
E-mail: melmasri@uwindsor.ca

iii) CALL FOR PAPERS
WOMEN’S HEALTH AND URBAN LIFE: AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

We are in the process of preparing a special issue on women’s health. We are particularly interested in women’s reproductive, sexual, physical and mental health issues. Both qualitative and quantitative manuscripts, and theoretical or empirical works are welcome. Papers should not exceed 30 pages, and four copies of the paper should be submitted. All submissions will be peer reviewed by anonymous reviewers. For more details about the goals, substantive basis and submission guidelines of the new journal, please contact or visit: http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/~womenshealth. Submission date: Dec. 15, 2009.
The journal is sponsored by SSHRC and located at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. In general, the journal addresses a plethora of topics relating to women’s and girls’ health from an international and interdisciplinary perspective and link health to globalization and urbanization issues. General topics include but are not limited to: Women’s health in general; Health related to reproduction; Health related to sexuality; Health related to paid or unpaid labour; Health related to parenthood; Health and the environment; Health and social policy and Health related to urbanization and globalization issues. The orientation of the journal is critical, feminist and social scientific. All scholarly articles on women’s health are welcome for the regular issues.

iv) Call for Abstracts

I have been contacted by the Cambridge Scholars Publishing Press and asked to edit a volume of essays using the ones on my "Mothers in 20th century literature by women of color" panel as well as others that were not presented at the RMMLA conference as long as they are consistent in the topic and have not been published somewhere else. The press does not want the book to just be a collection of essays but coherent, self-sufficent, and presentable more as a book than a mere collection. I would like to break up the book into several chapters of essays by topic.

If you would like to contribute to this project I will need a proposal or abstract of you paper, and a few short sentences about what academic readership your paper would appeal to, why someone would buy a book containing your essay as well as similar essays on the topic of women of color in the 20th century, and what makes your paper special in comparison to others works on the same or similar topic that have already been published.

I need all that information before I can put together a definite book proposal which includes an outline of the book (contents, chapters, introduction etc.). I cannot offer any information in connection to paper length or how many papers I will include. The book will be about 40 thousand words. I will be able to give you more information once I have received the abstracts and decided on how to divide up the chapters.

I do not have set an exact deadline for the abstracts, but will within the next couple of weeks. If you are interested please let me know.

You can email me at Melissa.Whitney@utsa.edu or at Mayce-girl@hotmail.com

v) GENDER ACROSS BORDERS IV: GLOBALISMS
Friday, April 2 & Saturday, April 3, 2010
Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender (genderin.buffalo.edu) State University of New York at Buffalo
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

<>Kiarina Kordela, Macalester College Department of German Studies, author of $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY, 2008)
Rayna Rapp, New York University Department of Anthropology (invited), author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America(Routledge, 2000)

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Gender Across Borders is a biennial forum for the interdisciplinary study and discussion of women and gender where scholars in fields ranging from the health sciences to comparative literature meet to share their research and work. Our theme for the 2010 conference is “Globalisms.”

On the brink of a climate catastrophe which will disproportionately affect women and other historically disenfranchised groups, and at a time when the global economy is devising new ways to reduce masculinity and femininity to market segments or consumer categories, it seems especially important to (re)consider the ways in which questions of gender and sexual difference intersect with our notions of what it means to be a global citizen. Our 2010 conference will thus convene scholars with diverse approaches to “the globe” in all of its various manifestations and permutations:

· the Material Globe: natural resources, global warming/climate change, ecology, environmentalism, agriculture, contamination

· the Biomedical Globe: disease, ability, public health, reproductive rights, the pharmaceutical industry, global pandemics, transmission, infection, transgender medical issues

· the Literary Globe: world literature, diasporic literature, transatlantic literature, travel literature, literature in exile, eco-poetics, translation

· the Political/Economic Globe: globalization, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, world war, terrorism, international relations, the United Nations, humanitarianism, (post)colonialism, immigration, border crossings and encounters, global political movements, sex trafficking, human rights and everything in between.

<> We welcome proposals for pre-arranged panels, individual papers, and posters from all disciplines which address such questions from the specific perspectives of gender, sexual difference, and/or sexuality. Please send a brief proposal (300 words) and a short bio (100 words) as MS Word attachments to Lydia R. Kerr (lydiakerr@gmail.com). Deadline: January 15, 2010.

12) JOB POSTINGS AND OPPORTUNITIES
i) Memorial University, Department of Women's Studies

Memorial University is the largest university in Atlantic Canada. As the province’s only university, Memorial plays an integral role in the education and cultural life of Newfoundland and Labrador. Offering diverse undergraduate and graduate programs to nearly 18,000 students, Memorial provides a distinctive and stimulating environment for learning in St. John’s, a safe, friendly city with great historic charm, a vibrant cultural life, and easy access to a wide range of outdoor activities. With over 185 regular faculty members in 16 academic departments and a wide variety of interdisciplinary major, minor and diploma programs, the Faculty of Arts offers breadth, depth and diversity. Counting around 5000 students with declared majors or minors, and with strong graduate programs, the Faculty is committed to providing solid teaching and research support to new appointees. The Faculty of Arts houses, among other units, the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), ISER Books and the Digital Research Centre for Qualitative Fieldwork. It is also home to outstanding archival collections, including the Maritime History Archive, the Folklore and Language Archive and the Native Language Archive. Memorial’s Queen Elizabeth II Library has excellent holdings with the most
extensive collection of journals in the region. Please see http://www.mun.ca/arts/.

NOTE: All applications should quote the appropriate position number as listed in each case.

Tenure-Track Appointments:

The Tenure-Track positions listed below will normally commence July 1, 2010,
subject to budgetary approval, and will be made at the rank of Assistant Professor (with the exception of the Head in the Department of Political Science which will be made at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor). All positions normally require a completed doctoral degree in the appropriate discipline. A completed earned doctorate is required for the appointee to receive the rank of Assistant Professor and to be in a tenure-track position. (If a successful candidate has not completed an earned doctorate, he/she shall be appointed to a regular term, non-renewable three-year appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. If the candidate completes all the requirements for the doctorate during the first 24 months of the term appointment, he/she shall begin a tenure-track appointment following completion of the requirements of the degree). Letters of application should be sent to the Head of the appropriate department, accompanied by a current curriculum vitæ, a teaching dossier, the names and addresses of three persons who can supply a letter of reference, and such additional materials as may be specified below. The application must provide evidence of excellence in teaching and research.
Applications should reach the Head no later than November 10, 2009.

Department of Women's Studies
POSITION#: VPA-WSTD-2009-001

The Department of Women’s Studies invites applications for a tenure track position in Indigenous, Aboriginal and/or First Nations studies. An expertise in transnational and/or postcolonial feminisms would be an asset. Geographical focus is open. The Department of Women’s Studies currently offers an undergraduate Major and Minor and Master of Women’s Studies. As well as interdisciplinary collaboration among colleagues in Arts, Business, Community Health, Education, Engineering, Human Kinetics and Recreation, Science, and Nursing, the department has strong connections with community organizations The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies or an allied discipline, with a demonstrated commitment to Women’s Studies/Gender Studies/Feminist Studies; demonstrated achievement in teaching and research; ability to teach required undergraduate courses in Women’s Studies (including Introduction to Women’s Studies); ability to teach graduate level courses in Women’s Studies and to supervise graduate students. Letters of application should be accompanied by a current curriculum vitae, a writing sample, a teaching dossier, three letters of reference. Applications should be forwarded to: Head, Department of Women’s Studies, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada, A1C 5S7. For further information, please email: joanb@mun.ca, with subject: “Women’s Studies Position.”

13) CONFERENCES & EVENTS

i)What: Mothers Expressing: Sharing the Work
When: October 6th - October 31st, 2009
-Opening Reception: Friday, October 9th, 2009, 6-9 pm
-Artist Talk: Thursday, October 27th, 2009 7:00 pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesdays, 2-5 pm, Wednesdays 6-9 pm, Thursdays 2-9 pm, Saturdays 2-5 pm, alternative visiting hours can be arranged by appointment

Cost: FREE and Open to the Public
Where: AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media - 141 Green Street located in the Green Street T Station on the Orange Line

Information: For more information, please call Nick Marmor at 516-987-6561 or visit www.axiomart.org

ii) A Dare to Remember, October 17-25, 2009

Can you imagine wearing a wetsuit with inflatable armbands and flippers around the city for a week? What about eating only local food or going vegetarian for a week? Or trying to give up coffee for a good cause? These are just a few of the "dares" Canadians are challenging themselves to do during the Dare to Remember October fundraising week. This nationwide event, organized by the Stephen Lewis Foundation, will raise much needed funds for AIDS-ravaged communities across Africa.

Your dare will support people like Elizabeth, who is an HIV-positive widow who cares for her five grandchildren and gravely ill daughter in rural Swaziland. She struggles to provide for her family and receives seeds and tools to grow vegetables from Swaziland Positive Living (SWAPOL), a grassroots organization serving 4,500 people in 46 communities. They provide food, school fees and uniforms to families in need.

With additional funding through dares like yours, the Stephen Lewis Foundation will reach tens of thousands more African grandmothers like Elizabeth so they can thrive and provide the best possible future for their grandchildren.

What will you dare to do for Africa's grandmothers?
A Dare to Remember (Oct 17-25) is easy and fun: just choose a dare -- no matter how big or small (run 5km, walk to work every day or host a fundraising dinner) -- and then ask everyone you know to sponsor you. The idea is that each of us can do something and when people come together for a cause, extraordinary things happen: http://www.adaretoremember.com/

iii) MEDIA PARTY ~ NEW YORK CITY & Announcing Sarah Ferguson's Participation in Mothers Day Today Tour with Mamapalooza

We're looking forward to sharing a sneak peek at our programming for our upcoming season with some of our select partners and a few of our good friends.

It's a PARTY. A FILM screening. And a lot of FUN. With exclusive giveaways and very exciting news!

When: October 21st, 7-9PM (Wed)
Where: Club STAY (www.stay-nyc.com)
244 E. Houston St.
(Between Ave A & B)
NYC 10002

Limited Space. Media Passes Available.
We're pleased to welcome Pete Scott, Founder of Mothers Day Today; Joy Baldridge, Mamapalooza Brand Ambassador; GIFTSHOP, band of the year; some of the metro area's premiere mom bloggers; a special announcement about Sarah Ferguson, Duchess Of York, inspiration for the Mothers Day Today Tour; Moms Like Me; and some of NYC's coolest movers and shakers.

For more information or to RSVP contact: robert.sullivan@mamapalooza.com 877.711.MOMS (6667)
www.mamapalooza.com
www.mothersdaytoday.com

iv) RAGA: Centre for Race, Autobiography, Gender, and Aging & Lawyers Rights Watch Canada

Invite you to join us for a public talk by Dr. Sherene Razack

"We didn't kill 'em, we didn't cut their heads off": Reflections on Torture at Abu Ghraib

Saturday, October 24th, 2009, 7-9 pm
Vancouver Central Public Library, Coast Salish Territories
350 W. Georgia St., Alice MacKay Room

It's now four years since the Abu Ghraib pictures hit the airwaves and discussions of torture are still everywhere. Dr. Razack explores how many contemporary discussions of torture that take place as critique, rely upon, even as they install, the idea that the enemy is culturally different from us. She traces the work done by the idea that Arab/Muslim means a different kind of human that can only be kept in line through violence.

Dr. Sherene Razack is Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE of the University of Toronto. Her area of research focuses on race and gender in the law. Her most recent book is, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics (2008).

Admission is free. Seating is limited. Childcare available on-site, please RSVP.
For more information contact the RAGA Centre at 604-822-0232 or ragacentre@gmail.com.
</>Co-sponsored by UBC Women's and Gender Studies & Vancouver Status of Women.

v) CAPPA Canada Childbirth and Postpartum professionalConference Invitation
</>Mississauga ON / 13 & 14 November 2009 /www.cappacanada.ca

Conference open to all childbirth and postpartum professionals: Childbirth Educators, Doulas, Lactation Consultants, Nurses, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, Midwives, Physicians, and colleagues. Register : On-line at: www.cappacanada.ca

Phone:1-866-236-2478 Email: info@cappacanada.ca Registration mail-in form available

Already Registered? Consider inviting your friends and colleagues.

The 2009 annual CAPPA conference will be held in Mississauga, ON, from Friday, November 13th (6:30 pm) to Saturday, November 14th ( 6pm). At the:
Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre
6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario L5N 2L3.

Conference features National and International Speakers, see Speaker list below. We are also pleased to include all meals and refreshments with this event. Enjoy full course meals and an elaborate snack table throughout the two days. Join us for a networking Social Friday night. Indulge yourself at the luxury Conference Hotel (only $95 Conference Rate), and consider bringing the family for their famous fun packages (indoor water park, games room and more).

Our annual conference is only $50 to all members of CAPPA with registration before 1 Sept 2009, after this date the registration fee is $100. Non-member registration is $150 prior to 1 Sept 2009, after this date pre-registration fee is $225. At door registration is $300. All information regarding our conference will be listed on this page as it becomes available.

Speakers Include: Barbara Harper, R.N., Jean Kouba RN. IBCLC,
Judith Rogers, OTR, ACCE, Shari Margolese, Bonnie Tytel
Join me for the CAPPA Canada Conference 13 & 14 Nov 2009. Limited seating Register now at www.cappacanada.ca
CAPPA Canada Office
info@cappacanada.ca
www.cappacanada.ca

10) COMMUNITY TIDBITS AND OPPORTUNITIES

i) SEEKING REFERENCES FOR RESEARCH:
I am working on a paper, looking at what I call "the maternal imparative" ("Love what is in front of you, and do what love requires" (my words) ) and environmental activism. This started with my viewing of the film "A Sense of Wonder", about the last year of Rachel Carson's life, which uses Carson's own words to tell the story of her activism, and the passions behind it. I had never heard before of the care-work that Carson did--in caring for her mother, and then her orphaned nephew (whom she adopted).
I'm looking now for stories of how caregiving (to children, elders, disabled relatives,etc) or strong mother-ish feelings (such as "a feeling for the organism", the phrase used by Evelyn Fox Keller to title her biography of Nobel geneticist Barbara McClintock) inspire, shape, limit or define the work of environmental writers, activists, or scientists. I'd really appreciate references to such material. Please email Serena Patterson: drpatt@mars.ark.com

ii) Give the women of Europe the right to free abortion!
http://www.makenoiseforfreechoice.eu/

All around the world, women are denied their right to free, legal and safe abortions. Even in Europe, women are deprived of the control over their own bodies and the number and spacing of children. It is the everyday reality facing women in Ireland, Poland and Malta.

Nowhere in the world should a woman be forced to use a hanger, eat washing powder or see a quacksalver to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, when safe abortion methods are available.

A cornerstone of the European Union is to work for gender equality and health. Therefore, women who lack the access to free, legal and safe abortions in the EU-countries such as Ireland, Malta and Poland, can no longer be ignored. The governments of these countries must be put under pressure.

It is time for the EU to secure the right to free, safe and legal abortions andrender it a human right. Liberal Women of Sweden, headed by Birgitta Ohlsson, member of the Swedish Parliament (Liberal Party) is hereby initiating a petition for Europe’s women’s right to free, legal and safe abortions - Make Noise for Free Choice. Do you want to put pressure on the European power holders? Help us collect one million signatures for the right to free abortion. Sign the petition Make Noise for Free Choice www.makenoiseforfreechoice.eu.
Birgitta Ohlsson
Member of Parliament (Liberal Party)
Sweden

iv) SEEKING SURVEY PARTICIPANTS:

I'm writing on behalf of journalists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (co-owners of Soapbox,Inc- Speakers who speak out (http://www.soapboxinc.com/) and co-authors of Manifesta and Grassroots). Amy and Jen are putting out a survey as research for their upcoming book, The Family Bed- Is There Sex After Kids? The survey itself is loosely based on Betty Friedan's 1957 project in which she asked her Smith College classmates to fill out a questionnaire about their lives. The responses were so dramatic that Friedan turned it into her ground-breaking 1963 best-seller The Feminine Mystique. Fifty-one years later, we revisited Friedan's original questions to create our own questionnaire in the hopes of shining a light on our generation-—specifically our sex lives and how they do/don't change once kids enter our lives. We hope you will share and help us to understand our generation as parents. Here is the survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bWJvHe7XHldAYHgxi_2fGF_2bw_3d_3d

Amy’s bio: http://www.soapboxinc.com/amy-richards/
Jennifer’s bio: http://www.soapboxinc.com/jennifer-baumgardner/

v) Momz Hot Rocks A film by Kate Perotti
Audiences are cheering this new music documentary, which features none other than the real moms who rock, the women of Mamapalooza. Featuring Joy Rose, lead singer of Housewives on Prozac, founder of Mamapalooza, the Motherhood foundation, MomsRising blogger and 2009 NOW recepient, Judy Davids, founder and gutarist of the Mydols, author of Rock Star Mommy, Rachel Yellow of Placenta, Oakland activist, Hip Mama blogger, Frump of Dallas, Detroitï's sweet Candy Band and Nashville comic Sue Fabisch.

Never mind the laundry, director Kate Perotti puts us in the passenger seat for a fun fast paced view into what it takes to make mom rock. The film has been playing to critical acclaim on the festival circuit this summer and will soon make its international bow this fall.

Feel free to blog and tweet about it. Become a Fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Momz-Hot-Rocks/131378156110
www.momzhotrocks.com

vi) Stay up to date with Mamapalooza News: http://www.mamapalooza.com

11) NEW BOOK/FILM ANNOUNCEMENTS

i)Teaching the ‘Isms’: feminist Pedagogy Across the Disciplines
edited by Deborah Byrd. Fall 2009.
The essays in this collection identify challenges one faces when teaching about and against the “isms,” then present assignments and exercises designed to meet such challenges. The six contributors share the belief that feminist teachers should be as attentive to the politics of race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, social class, nation, and disability as they are to the politics of gender. Thus while some essays focus primarily on pedagogical strategies for addressing race and ethnicity and others on effective ways to teach about issues of class, religion, sexuality, or gender, informing all the essays is the conviction that systems of power and privilege are intertwined and thus cannot be analyzed and resisted effectively in isolation. The contributors teach courses in a wide variety of disciplines (Africana Studies, Anthropology, Economics, English, Health Education, Math, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Writing) and in diverse academic contexts, from service-learning seminars for first-year students to courses on “Gender and Science” and training programs for peer tutors in a Writing Across the Curriculum Program. For more information: byrdd@lafayette.edu

ii)DVD OF THE AWARD WINNING ‘MAVERICK MOTHER’

52 minute Documentary Director/Producer-Janet Merewether info.screenculture@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS
‘At 39, Janet’s biological clock was chiming a deafening ‘tic-toc’….. A film about solo motherhood by choice and the contemporary role of the father.’

ii) The Smiling Mask: Truths About Postpartum Depression and Parenthood by Tania Bird, Carla O’Reilly and Elita Paterson. The purpose of The Smiling Mask is to create awareness, understanding, and acceptance of postpartum difficulties. To bring peace and validation to mothers by engaging and empowering families, and communities in the life-changing and natural experience of parenthood.
http://thesmilingmask.com/product/the-smiling-mask-book/

iii) More Than Title IX: How Equity in Education has Shaped the Nation (Hanson, K., V. Guilfoy, S. Pillai.) Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country. But this change has not come without struggle. More Than Title IX highlights the impact of one of the most powerful instruments of change—education. The book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments for gender equity in education and tells the dramatic stories of the women and men who made these changes possible. The narrative blends historical analysis with dynamic interview excerpts with people whose actions made a difference in both educational equity and in the country as a whole. By showing how hard-won changes in education have improved life for women and men in America over the past century, the authors remind readers not to take freedoms for granted. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com

iv) “This Is Not How I Thought It Would Be: Remodeling Motherhood to Get the Lives We Want Today” by Kristin Maschka. The book takes an important look at motherhood and family dynamics in the 21st century. I wrote it to shine a spotlight on the complex issues mothers face—at work, in their homes, their lives, and with their partners—and show how the hidden assumptions that society, the media, public policy, and women themselves hold about motherhood can keep mothers from having the lives they want. http://bit.ly/remodelingmotherhood

v) Who Does She Think She Is? (directed by Pamela Tanner Boll) now has an additional educational dvd component. The educational DVD comes with bonus materials and a fabulous curriculum guide. Let your local (public or school) librarian know that you would like the film to be added to the collection and that they can order here. (http://tinyurl.com/MysticArtists). We've had such wonderful responses from people who have seen the film at our university, high school, and community screenings. We are very excited to have it be incorporated into library collections and courses this fall.

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