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CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter
Press
is
seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled
Mothers
and Daughters
Editors:
Dannabang Kuwabong,
Janet
MacLennan, and Dorsía Smith Silva
Deadline
for Abstracts: April 30, 2015
This anthology will
explore the multifaceted connections between mothers and daughters. We
welcome submissions that analyze new fields of inquiry in this area,
examining discourses about mothers and daughters through academic
writing, narrative essays, and creative work. We specifically encourage
offerings that address the identity and experiences of mothers and
daughters from within an interdisciplinary framework, which includes
cultural, biological, socio-political, relational and historical
perspectives. Therefore the uniqueness of this collection revolves around
a fluidity in blending not just work from across academic disciplines,
but also the forms in which this work is presented: academic inquiry and
critique as well as creative and narrative explorations.
Topics
may include (but are not limited to):
Mother-daughter
relationships and how they are shaped by race, ethnicity, class,
religion, immigrant status, gender, and sexuality; motherhood, loss and
grief; intensive mothering; adoption; mothering and adult children;
grand-mothering; men as "mothers" and daughters; motherhood and
disability/special needs; childcare and domestic labor; mothers and
daughters and digital media; mothers and daughters and codependency;
pregnancy; adaptive mothering; surrogacy; reproductive choices; mothers
and daughters and public policy; mothers and daughters and literature;
mothers and daughters and disability/special needs; mothers and daughters
and the body; mothers and daughters and illness; mothers and daughters
and mothers in the workplace; mothers and daughters and Third Wave
Feminism; mothers and daughters in global and transnational contexts;
changing roles and identities of mothers and daughters; matrilineal
heritages and narratives; maternal narratives; relational
(auto)biographies, creative writing and mother-daughter dyadism; maternal
sexualities; mother/daughter and "other mothers" relationships;
mother/daughter relationships in blended families; mother/daughter home
and the mother(land); maternal absence; long distance mothering;
cross-cultural mothering; the mad/depressed mother and/or daughter;
maternal silences and mother tongues; sexual, physical, psychological and
emotional abuse; trauma, memory and mothers and daughters; mothers and
daughters and agency; cultural traditions of mothers and daughters;
mothers and daughters and popular culture; mothers and daughters and
education; mothers and daughters and language; mothers/daughters and
generational binaries; teenage daughters as mothers; mothers/daughters and
war; sex work and mother-daughter relationship; healing narratives
between mothers and daughters; narcissism, individualism and
mother-daughter relations.
Submission
Guidelines:
Abstracts/Proposals:
500 words. Please include a 50-word biographic note. Due April 30, 2015
Acceptances
made by May 31, 2015
Completed
manuscripts (15-18 pages double-spaced; contributors are responsible for
ensuring that submission adheres to the MLA style) will be due September
1, 2015
Creative
work (completed according to guidelines specified by editors at time of
acceptance) will be due September 1, 2015
Please
send inquiries and abstracts to editors:
Dannabang
Kuwabong, Janet MacLennan,
and
Dorsía Smith Silva at
MothersAndDaughters2015@yahoo.com
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