In addition to intellectual fare, we'll feature workshops and discussion groups for women, mothers and family partners to explore subjects like: 'The Woman Inside The Mom' and life coaching, love coaching, financial well-being workshops, rock and roll makeovers, women-made film and art presentations, comedy intenisves, and book readings.

 

*Confirmed Keynote Address by Phyllis Chesler, author of Women and Madness Thursday, May 28, 2009 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com

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CALL FOR PAPERS

In celebration of Mother's Day,
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and MAMAPALOOZA are
hosting a two-day conference!
"MOTHERS GONE MAD: MOTHERHOOD AND MADNESS
OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE"

FEATURING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY:
PHYLLIS CHESLER
AND
PAULA CAPLAN, Ph.D.
"Who Decides If Mothers Are Crazy? From Freud's Mother to Today's"

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, community agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts, and other alternative formats.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):

Motherhood, Art, and Madness; Histories of Maternal Resistance; Historical Perspectives on Madness and Motherhood; Mothers, Madness, and Medicine; Maternal Anger; Mother Blame; Maternal Guilt; Racial Oppression, and Motherhood; Motherhood and Mental Illness; Psychoanalysis and Motherhood; Cultural Representations of Murderous Mothers; Depression, and Domestic Violence; Politicizing Motherhood: Maternal Activism; Post Partum Depression; LGBT Mothers, Oppression, and Resistance; Mothering and Disability; Mothers who kill; Motherhood in the News; Resistant Motherhoods; Momism and Oppression; Mothers who Live on the Edge; Working Mothers and Society; Raising Activist Children; Menopausal Mothers; Mothering and Eating Disorders; Demonizing 'Bad' Mothers; Madness as Agency and Resistance; Infanticide; Matricide; Grief, Bereavement and Loss; 'Good' Mothers versus 'Bad' Mothers, Medicalization of Maternity; Incarcerated Mothers; Mothers and Addiction; Psychology, Psychiatry and Mothers; Healing and Recovery; Feminist Mothering.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS - EXTENDED UNTIL FEB, 2009

*Please email 250 word presentation abstract and 50 word bio to
arm@yorku.ca <mailto:arm@yorku.ca>

MAMAPALOOZA Inc. connecting Mothers through Music, Art, Activism and
Education for Cultural, Economic & Social awareness. MOMS ROCK!

Mamapalooza serves as a resource for mothers seeking support, awareness and education in the arts, entrepreneurship and areas of mental and physical health. We are a cultural and social service hub, fostering talent, and providing a network for professional advancement, creative fulfillment, and financial education, encouraging well-being for women and families.

Founded in 1998 the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) is the first and still only international feminist research devoted specifically to the topic of mothering-motherhood. Our mandate is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of research on motherhood and to establish a community of individuals and institutions working and researching in the area of mothering and motherhood. ARM houses the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Demeter Press, and the feminist mothers group MOTHER OUTLAWS.

Thursday May 28-Saturday May 31 in New York City; Nola Studios and Multiple performance venues; Bowery Poetry Club, Arlene's Grocery, Bleeker Street Poetry Slam (open to all), The Slipper Room & Riverside Park South in Association with New York Parks Dept and culminating at a FREE OUTDOOR MaMapalooza FAMILY-FRIENDLY CONCERT with Summer On The Hudson on Sunday May 31 from noon - 5PM.

We will continue filming 'The Motherhood Movement' - You Say You Want A Revolution. Be part of HerStory.

*More about Dr. Chesler; Dr. Chesler's thirteen books and thousands of articles and speeches have inspired people on many diverse issues. Her books include: Women and Madness; Women, Money and Power; About Men; With Child: A Diary of Motherhood; Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody; Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M; Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness; Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health; Letters to a Young Feminist; Woman's Inhumanity to Woman; Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site; The New Anti-Semitism. The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It; and The Death of Feminism. What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom. A revised and updated edition of her classic, best-selling work, Women and Madness, was published in 2005. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages.