CALL FOR PAPERS
Demeter Press
is seeking submissions for an edited collection on
Mothering: Anthropological Perspectives
Editors: Michelle Walks and Naomi McPherson Publication Date: 2012/2013.
Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2010
This anthology will explore the topic and experiences of mothering from
a cross-cultural perspective. Although the collection will primarily
focus on cultural anthropological work, we welcome submissions from all
four fields in anthropology (linguistic, physical/biological,
archeology, and cultural). We encourage writings of recent fieldwork,
welcoming the representations of local and global perspectives, and
writings that represent all points of the insider-outsider spectrum,
including auto-ethnography. Writing styles may vary from field notes to
ethnographic fiction to traditional academic writing to poetry to
photographic representations. While ethnographic (research-based)
submissions will make up the majority of the volume, theoretical
submissions are also welcome.
The intent is to compile works of geographical and experiential
diversity that demonstrate various family forms, as well as styles,
contexts and problems of mothering, from an anthropological perspective.
We would like to focus on the strengths, empowerment, and agency of
mothering. Please note that the editors embrace a broad, inclusive
understanding of “mothering”.
<>Topics can include (but are not limited to):
Mothering in immigrant and/or refugee communities; mothering in locales
of war and/or terror and/or perpetual protest; rural and urban
mothering; mothering after the loss of a child and/or miscarriage and/or
abortion; the relationship of mothering to infertility and/or
miscarriage; the relationship of mothering to NRTs; Indigenous
mothering; queer mothering; mothering in communes and/or communal
mothering; feminist mothering in the West and/or globally; mothering
done by nannies, siblings, aunts, grandparents, co-parents, fathers,
non-biological parents, step-mothering; surrogate mothering; primate
mothering; allomothering; archeological research on/related to
mothering; mothering “in the field”; mothering and the internet;
mothering and dis/ability; political and/or activist mothering;
mothering in multicultural/multi-racial/multi-ethnic families; mothering
& post-partum depression and/or dealing with other mental health issues.
<>Submission guidelines:
<>Submissions should be 4000-5000 words (15-20 pages) (inc. notes +
sources). Please also include a 50-word bio.
<>Please use the American Anthropological Association style.
<>Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2010.
Please send submissions and inquiries directly to both: