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CALL
FOR PAPERS
Demeter
Press
is
seeking submissions for an edited collection on
Incarcerated
Mothers:
Oppression
and Resistance
Co-Editors:
Gordana Eljdupovic and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich
Publication
Date: 2012
Deadline
for abstracts: May 31, 2011!
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A large proportion - and in
many jurisdictions the majority - of incarcerated women are mothers.
Popular attention is often paid to challenges faced by children of
incarcerated mothers while incarcerated women themselves often do not
"count" as mothers in mainstream discourse. This anthology
will explore complex issues relating to incarcerated mothers, from
connections between mothering and incarceration, through
criminalization of motherhood to understanding experiences of mothers
in prison.
This book will examine how
incarcerated mothers are ascribed identities, and especially how
society scripts ??of the mother role and counts as a good or real
mother in Western patriarchal society. t this preceeding sentence still
vague/ackward; please reviseWe encourage submissions that
interrogate popular discourses about mothering, virtue and
criminalization and especially those that focus on resistance and
agency by incarcerated mothers.
Suggested topics include, but
are not limited to:
-health of mothers in prison -,- experiences
of mothers in prison, -representations of incarcerated mothers in
popular culture - prison narratives by and about mothers- history of
incarcerated mothers- public policy- the law, - stated above -
Criminalization of pregnancy and motherhood -constructing
identities - survival patterns as incarcerated mothers- negative
cultural portrayals of mothers who are criminalized -
relationship of patriarchal discursive systems to portrayals of
incarcerated mothers - Incarcerated mothers in the press and other
mainstream cultural media - adolescent incarcerated mothers - race,
class, ethnicity and incarcerated mothers - foster families and
incarcerated mothers- mother and caregiver relationships - mothers
after incarceration - transitioning from carceral settings to the
community - Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Transsexual
incarcerated mothers - gender identity, criminalization and the social
construction of motherhood
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Submission
Guidelines:
Abstracts
should be 250 words. Please also include a brief biography,
including
citizenship (50 words).
Please
send to Rebecca@jbbarrister.com
Deadline
for Abstracts is May 31st, 2011
Accepted
Papers of 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages) will be due November 1, 2011
and
should conform to MLA citation format.
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