WUNRN
CALL FOR PAPERS
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
12th Annual Conference
Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War,
and Social Justice
October 23-25, 2008
We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, NGOs, 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):
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.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Flavia Cherry, National Chairwoman of the Caribbean
Association for Feminist Research
and Action (CAFRA)
Gertrude Fester, Commissioner on the Commission of Gender
Equality South Africa
Linda Renney Forcey, author of Mothers of Sons: Toward an
Understanding of Responsibility
Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a
Politics of Peace
Tiisetso Russell, Comparative, International and Development
Education, University of Toronto
Click here to download this information (PDF).
One must be an ARM member to present at the conference. For information on how to become a member of ARM, please see our membership form.
Association for Research
on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 x60366 FAX: (416) 736-5766
Email: arm@yorku.ca
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