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Deadline: March 10, 2024 | Date: June 29, 2024-June 30, 2024

Venue/Country: London/Online, U.K.

Updated: 2023-12-21 01:42:29 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

The conference seeks to encourage dialogue around cultural concepts of motherhood by observing the cultural roles that are given to maternal figures, the perspectives from which this experience is approached, and how these engage in dialogue with other current discourses such as politics, law and medicine.

By questioning traditional mother roles, challenging the myths and taboos associated with the reproductive body, and establishing dialogues with the personal and communal experience of motherhood, we hope to inspire more open and realistic discourses around a figure that is not only fundamental in our life experience but also constitutes one of the basic pillars that sustain our societies.

We invite papers on (but by no means limited to) the following areas:

Representations of motherhood in literature, cinema and TV

Mother as a Myth: motherhood in art and philosophy

Motherhood and law

The mother’s body and the body politic: the political instrumentalisation of motherhood

Motherhood and medicine: medicalising and pathologising women’s bodies

Surrogate motherhood and alternative forms of parenting

Motherhood and gender roles

Mothers under patriarchy: motherhood and ideology

The cons of motherhood: delaying, regretting or rejecting motherhood

The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals who are interested in the conference topic.

Proposals up to 250 words accompanied by a brief biographical note should be sent to: motherhood@lcir.co.uk.