WUNRN
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering
Conference
Motherhood Institute for Research and Community
Involvement (MIRCI)
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.
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Martha Albertson Fineman, author of The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of
Dependency
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 and 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
One must be a member of Motherhood Initiative for
Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
to present at this conference. Membership will begin
Motherhood Institute for Research and Community
Involvement (MIRCI)
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