Call for Papers

The Association for Research on Mothering Australia ( ARM -A)
and
The Association for Research on Mothering Canada ( ARM )
and
The Centre for Research on Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change, School of EMSAH , The University of Queensland .

invite the submission of abstracts for the

Fifth Australian International Conference on Motherhood
on the theme of

The Mother and History: Past and Present

Thursday 2nd July 2009 – Saturday 4th July 2009
at
The University of Queensland , St Lucia Q 4072, Brisbane , Australia

If you are interested in being a presenter, please send a 200 word abstract and a 50 word bio by March 31st 2009 to:
Dr Marie Porter ( m.porter2uq.edu.au)

This conference is interdisciplinary.

The topic is broad and can include papers on the present which is influenced by the past, and is creating the past

Other Possible Areas include:

How has your discipline dealt with Motherhood/mothering historically. Does that affect the mother in the present. If so, how?

The mother, violence and history; legal treatment of the mother;

cultural differences and the mother/s e.g.migrant mothers, Muslim and Asian Mothers, Indigenous mothers, the white mother etc.

Pathology and the mother: the pregnant body in history; birth control; pregnancy; birthing. Textual images of the mother. Mothers and work, class influences, childhood etc.

Australian and New Zealand Presenters of papers must be/become members of ARM -A.
Email: ja.jones@qut.edu.au

International presenters must be/become members of ARM
Email: arm2yorku.caWebsite: www.yorku.ca/crm.

Please send your bio. with your abstract.
Do not send an abstract without putting your name on it.
Please send the abstract as an attachment, not in the body of the email; give it a title, or put your name on it; please do not just put ‘abstract'.

Contact   Dr Marie Porter, m.porter2uq.edu.au