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CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter
Press
is
seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled
Muslim
Mothering
Eds.
M. Aziza Pappano and Dana M. Olwan
Deadline
for Abstracts: May 1, 2015
The concept of
Muslim mothering elicits a wide range of assumptions about the roles
religious precepts play in shaping experiences of mothering and
motherhood. While Muslim women are often subjects of scrutiny and media
analysis, Muslim mothering evokes scant theoretical attention and
concern. This collection will attempt to examine concepts of Muslim mothering
while contributing to an understanding of the diverse ideas, practices,
and strategies employed by Muslim mothers across the world from a range
of historical, theoretical, and political perspectives. It aims to
examine the challenges of Muslim mothering while remaining attuned to
the particular difficulties and complexities of practicing Islam today
in a variety of national, transnational, and international contexts. We
seek works that can address multiple, varied, and even contradictory
images, symbols, and representations of Muslim mothers and Muslim
mothering. In considering the importance of understanding how religious
practices shape or inflect mothering and the institution of motherhood,
the collection will be guided by the following question: How do Muslim
mothers mother?
The editors of this
collection seeks article length contributions from across the
humanities and social sciences on the following topics: Muslim mothers
or mothers in Islam; intersectional approaches to Muslim mothering and
Muslim mothering practices; race, class, sexuality, and religion in
Muslim mothering; constructions of Muslim mothering in the Quran and
the Hadith; rights of Muslim mothers; representations of Muslim
mothers; Motherhood in Islam; Muslim mothers and pregnancy, birth,
motherhood, and adoption; gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/heterosexual
Muslim mothering; Muslim mothering and (dis)ability; single Muslim
mothering; Muslim mothering and Islamophobia; mothering in Muslim
majority and minority states; Muslim mothering in times of war,
occupation, conflict, and/or natural disaster; Muslim mothering and
migration; national, international, and/or transnational Muslim
mothering; Muslim mothering and reproductive technologies; bilingual,
multilingual and/or multicultural Muslim mothering; Muslim mothering
and/as resistance; convert Muslim mothering; non-Muslim mothers of
Muslim children; Muslim Milk mothers; feminist Muslim mothering;
anti-capitalist Muslim mothering. Papers that examine Muslim mothering
from multidisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome.
Submission
Guidelines:
Abstracts
should be 500 words. Please also include a brief biography (with
citizenship information).
Please
send abstracts or inquiries to M. Aziza Pappano at
pappanom@queensu.ca in word document file with "Muslim
Mothering" in title of e-mail message.
Deadline
for Abstracts is May 1st, 2015
Accepted
papers of 4000-6000 words (15-20 pages) will be due
September
1st, 2015 and should conform to MLA citation format.
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