CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter Press
is seeking submissions for an edited collection on
Adoption and Mothering
Publication Date: Spring 2009
Editor: Frances Latchford
We are excited to be publishing an interdisciplinary book that focuses on mothering and adoption studies. We are seeking papers that critically examine a variety of debates, issues, ideas, and concerns that surround being a mother in the context of the adoption triad. Papers must focus on birth mothers (i.e., women who have relinquished children for adoption) and/or adoptive mothers. Papers that focus on transracial adoptive mothering, interracial birth mothering and/or queer adoptive or birth mothering are also encouraged.
Papers can:
examine historical and/or contemporary social, political, and psychic issues and debates concerning mothering and adoption (e.g., issues pertaining to adoption/mothering and race, class, ability, gender, sex, and/or sexuality.); look at closed, open, and/or informal adoption systems and practices.; Investigate any aspects of the meaning,
experience, identity, and/or subjectivity of the ‘mother’ relative to the adoption triad.; explore the experience, identity, and/or subjectivity of adoptees specifically in relation to the birth mother and/or adoptive mother.; be written from a variety of perspectives and disciplines (e.g., philosophy, history, psychology, law, sociology, social work, women’s studies, critical race studies, and/or queer or sexuality studies).
A key goal of the book is to offer new critical perspectives on adoption and mothering. Papers should attempt to challenge or think differently about traditional and institutionalized ideas, assumptions, pathologies, psychologies, and discourses that historically and currently surround birth mothers and/or adoptive mothers.
Abstracts/Proposals (250-300 words) due: January 1, 2008
Acceptances will be made by: February 28, 2008
Accepted and completed submissions due: July 1, 2008
Please send inquiries and abstracts/proposals to:
Dr. Frances Latchford, Editor
Adoption and Mothering
flatch@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/adoptionandmothering.html
