[Commlist] Call for Chapters – edited volume: Representing Mothers and Motherhood on Screen

*Call for Chapters – edited volume*

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*Editors Susan Liddy and Deirdre Flynn*

/Representing Mothers and Motherhood on Screen/

This international collection will explore on-screen representations of 
mothers and motherhood. The last few years has seen a proliferation of 
films and series about mothers and motherhood, in film, television and 
streaming platforms. Traditionally, dramatic representations of mothers 
and mothering supported the ideology of the ‘good’, grounded, 
child-centred mother.  But recent depictions suggest the cultural ideal 
of ‘the good mother’ is being contested. Many productions offer a more 
critical engagement with maternal characters and narratives than we have 
previously seen on our screens in work like /Pieces of Her, Otherhood, 
Maid, My Brilliant Friend, The Lost Daughter, False Positive, Herself, 
and Parallel Mothers /to name just a few.

Maternal realities and practices have changed over time, for example: 
mothers with babies and young children often remain in employment; women 
can be single mothers by choice; they can become mothers in their teens 
or in their late 30s, 40s and beyond, sometimes with assisted 
reproductive technologies; they can be adoptive mothers or become 
mothers through surrogacy and so on. More women are also speaking about 
the decision to be childless by choice. Disparities remain and black 
women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy related cause 
than white women in the US. The global lockdowns drew attention to often 
exploitative surrogacy industries in the developing world, as well as 
the dipropionate burden of care in many households. It may be that the 
disruption of Covid 19 and its impact on mothers and mothering has also 
fed, directly or indirectly, into screen narratives.

We invite you, where possible, to submit chapters that engage with 
issues of intersectionality and mothering including gender, race, 
ethnicity, disability, class, sexuality and age.

For this volume topics might include, but are by no means confined to:

  * ‘Good’ mothers and ‘bad’ mothers
  * Motherhood and loss, sadness or regret
  * Genre and motherhood
  * LGTBQ+ mothers
  * Motherhood and race/class/ ethnicity etc.
  * Motherhood and age
  * Women who yearn for, or alternatively reject, motherhood
  * Motherhood in migrant or nomadic communities

It is anticipated that this book will make a valuable contribution to 
international debates on mothers and motherhood and will complement 
publications that focus on the screen industries such as /Media Work, 
Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the International Audiovisual 
Industry/ (Liddy & O Brien 2021) and /Single Lives: Modern Women in 
Literature, Culture, and Film/ (Fama & Lagerwey 2022). This collection 
will facilitate scholars, students, activists, programme makers and 
practitioners in identifying and understanding changing representations 
of mothers across the globe.

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*Abstract submission deadline: *Please submit a detailed abstract of 400 
words and a short bio (150 words) by June 25, 2022. Please sent to both 
editors - (Susan.liddy /at/ mic.ul.ie) <mailto:(Susan.liddy /at/ mic.ul.ie)> and 
(Deirdre.Flynn /at/ mic.ul.ie) <mailto:(Deirdre.Flynn /at/ mic.ul.ie)>

*Notification of Abstract acceptance: *26 July, 2022.

*Estimated timeframe for completed first draft: *The estimated timeframe 
for the completed first draft of 6,500 words is March 20, 2023.

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*We have received a strong expression of interest from Routledge who are 
awaiting the submission of a full proposal. *

Dr. Susan Liddy

Department Media and Communication Studies

MIC

University of Limerick

South Circular Road

Limerick

Ireland

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