CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
MATERNAL SUBJECTIVITIES:
PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOANALYSIS,
LITERATURE, CULTURE AND THE ARTS
Rome, Italy
April 23-24, 2015
Casa Internazionale delle donne
Via della Lungara 19 – 00165 Roma
www.casainternazionaledelledonne.org
We welcome submissions from scholars, students, artists, mothers and others who research in this area. Cross-cultural and comparative work is encouraged. We are open to a variety of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines and creative submissions including visual art, literature, and performance art.
Topics may include but are not restricted to:
Maternal subjectivities in intersectional, global contexts; maternal ambivalence; mothers/mothering in literature; mothers and sons/daughters; representations of the maternal; mother love; psychoanalytic theory on/of mothers; mothers and psychotherapy; counselling approaches specific to mothers; maternal mental health and wellness; psychological processes in becoming a mother; mother’s panopticon, attachment to and separation from mother; developmental stages as seen by classic theorists and the constraints of those models; feminist developmental models; feminist critique of the ‘psy’ discourses in relation to maternal subjectivities; feminist critiques of psychoanalysis/psychology/psychotherapy; mothering as reflexive practice; matroreform, feminist counselling; the social construction of mothers; images of mothers; mother blame/mother guilt; countertransference therapist-mother to client-mother; object relations theory; theories and theorists of maternal subjectivities (Melanie Klein, Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Nancy Chodorow, Jessica Benjamin, Joan Raphael-Leff, Daphne de Marneffe, Lisa Baraitser, Alison Stone); queering/queer maternal subjectivities; ‘bad’ mothering; feminist/empowered mothering; maternal subjectivities and disabilities; and maternal subjectivities in an historical context.
If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 200 word abstract and a 50-word bio by December 1, 2014 to aoreilly@yorku.ca
** TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT FOR THIS CONFERENCE, ONE MUST BE A 2015 MEMBER OF MIRCI
http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/membership.html
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