[ecrea] BIRTH: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction conference CALL FOR PAPERS

>BIRTH
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>The Cultural Politics of Reproduction
>
>An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute for Advanced 
>Studies, Lancaster University, Wednesday 7th March 2007
>
>New health practices and technologies are rapidly transforming 
>cultural understandings and individual experiences of reproduction. 
>As a consequence of these changes 'birth' (by which we mean not only 
>childbirth but the range of embodied, social and cultural practices 
>associated with reproduction and parenting) has become the site of 
>intensive academic research. BIRTH aims to create a dialogue between 
>different disciplinary approaches to reproduction.Through a focus on 
>the cultural politics of reproduction, this event aims to bring 
>together academics and researchers from across the social sciences 
>and humanities working in the area of reproduction, pregnancy, 
>birthing, parenting and childcare.
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>This call for papers encourages the submission of abstracts that 
>address the theme of birth, be that birth practices, birth stories, 
>representations of birth, technologies of childbirth, issues of 
>infertility, or birth as a metaphor for female identity, through a 
>consideration of the cultural, sexual, economic, and institutional 
>contexts from which these experiences of birth emerge.
>
>
>Possible Themes
>
>Birth Narratives and Body Stories: historical and changing myths of 
>birth, Birth as rite of passage, secrets, shame, injury and birth, 
>maternal monsters, race, ethnicity and birth, the new visual 
>cultures of birth (including representations of birth in literature, 
>television, theatre, film and other media forms), new consumer 
>cultures of birth. Feminist and queer retellings of, `disabled` 
>birth, male `pregnancies`, and `male reproduction`.
>
>
>The Birthing Subject: feminist philosophies of birth and embodiment, 
>pregnant embodiment, birth as a metaphor for rethinking female identities.
>
>Childbirth: the birthing experience, medical and health practices 
>associated with childbirth (pre-natal, intrapartum and post-natal), 
>Prenatal Diagnostic Screening, genetic testing and engineering and 
>IVF, and the impact of these health technologies on the meaning of 
>childbirth, maternal agency within childbirth, alternative 
>childbirth movements, pain and childbirth, the new legal cultures of 
>childbirth, access to maternal health services, class and economic 
>aspects of childbirth and fertility, Maternal Mortality and Childbirth Injury.
>
>Reproductive `Failure`: discourses of infertility, `Failed` births, 
>'Barren' women, abortion, contraception, family planning, the foetal 
>subject, pro-life politics, intentional childlessness, new 
>mythologies of `having it all`, forced abortion, surrogacy, 
>Sterilization and Human Rights, Reproductive Policies and Practices 
>in non-Western contexts, The Politics of Below-Replacement Fertility.
>
>
>
>Please send abstracts of 500 words to Imogen Tyler, 
>(i.tyler /at/ lancs.ac.uk) <mailto:(i.tyler /at/ lancs.ac.uk) 
><mailto:(i.tyler /at/ lancs.ac.uk)> > , by October 6th 2006.
>
>
>
>Non -speakers can enroll for the event as a participant by 
>contacting the conference administrator June Rye, (j.rye /at/ lancs.ac.uk) 
><mailto:(j.rye /at/ lancs.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.rye /at/ lancs.ac.uk)> > . Please 
>include full contact details with your conference registration 
>email. Please note that places will be limited.
>
>
>
>In due course we will send out and publish online the full 
>conference information (including details of accommodation and 
>travel). This event is fully funded and there will be no conference fee.
>
>
>
>Imogen Tyler
>Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
>UG Admissions Tutor for American Studies, Film Studies, Media and 
>Cultural Studies
>Institute for Cultural Research 
><http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres>
>Faculty of Social Sciences <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/faculty/>
>Lancaster University <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/>
>Lancaster
>UK
>LA1 4YR
>(01524) 594186
>(i.tyler /at/ lancaster.ac.uk) <mailto:(i.tyler /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>
>www.imogentyler.net <http://www.imogentyler.net/>
>
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