Call for Papers

The Association for Research on Mothering Australia (ARM-A) and the Association for Research on Mothering Canada (ARM) invite the submission of abstracts for the Fifth Australian International Conference on Motherhood

The Mother and History: The Past and the Present

2nd – 4th July 2009
University of Queensland

Send a 200 word abstract and a 50 word bio by March 31st 2009 to: Dr Marie Porter (m.porter@uq.edu.au)

This conference is interdisciplinary.
The topic is broad and can include papers on the present which is influenced by the past, compared to the present 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
• pathology and the mother: the pregnant body in history; birth control; pregnancy; birthing
• textual images of the mother
• mothers and work, class influences, childhood