Call for Academic Papers on Mothering

[callistra]

Call For Papers on speculative Representations of Mothering

Femspec is soliciting essay for a special edition on Speculative
Representations
of Mothering--to be edited by Heidi Hutner (Associate Professor of
English,
SUNY Stony Brook). We are seeking essays on all aspects of mothering:
personal narratives and poetry on mothering, mothering and illness,
mothering
and colonialism, mothering and ecofeminism, queer mothering, mothering
and
race, mothering and patriarchy, mothering and the medical body,
mothering
and film, mothering and literature, mothering and art, mothering and the
supernatural, mothering and utopia/apocalypse.

FEMSPEC is an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical
and
creative works in the realms of SF, fantasy, magical realism,
surrealism, myth,
folklore, and other supernatural genres. <http://www.femspec.org>

Please send your seven hundred word (minimum) proposal and vita to:
Professor Heidi Hutner, Department of English, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony
Brook, NY 11795. Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2007. If your paper
proposal
is accepted, the completed work must be submitted by October 15, 2007.

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Comments

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

A speculative representation on Mothering first must need to call into- no dear, it's not time to go to the Astrodiner yet, Mummy's busy...er...Mothers in SF need to face many dificult issues, firstly...no sweety, I don't know where your interosciter is, did you leave it in the aircar? In the greater scheme of things the Mother aspect in many myths - look, just because he's on your side doesn't mean you have to put a geas on him, honestly!

[aphd3l.livejournal.com]

LMAO.

That is so funny, I almost sputtered mini-toast all over my monitor.

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

:-). I'm constantly amazed that mothers can get *anything* done, let alone academic papers!

"Mummy! Timmy says there's no such thing as Great Cthulhu!"
"Well ignore him dear, we'll drag him down to Ryleh later."

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

Motherhood and fandom, I wonder?