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-- With apologies for cross-posting --
CALL FOR PAPERS - Reproducing Expectations? Personal Narratives and Public
Discourses of Reproduction
Proposed Panel at the BSA Annual Conference
4-6 April 2017, University of Manchester
Organisers: Zeynep Gurtin (University of Cambridge) and Charlotte Faircloth
(University of Roehampton)
Deadline for submissions is *11 October 2016*
Panel Theme: Reproducing Expectations? Personal Narratives and Public
Discourses of Reproduction
Building on our recent work, which seeks to create a dialogue between scholars
of assisted reproductive technologies and parenting culture studies, this panel
will bring together reproduction scholars working on a range of topics from
reproductive technologies and LGBT studies, to intimacy and parenting. In line
with the conference theme, we seek to explore the fissures between the public
discourses and personal experiences of reproduction, pregnancy and parenting in
the 21st Century. We hope for a mix of papers interrogating the various ways in
which expectations and anxieties are created as men and women progress along
their reproductive journeys, particularly where these journeys involve medical
and technological interactions. We are interested in work that questions the
role of assumptions and expectations; details decision-making processes;
interrogates reproductive stratifications and inequalities; explores pioneering
reproductive undertakings; engages with the concepts of anxiety,
individualization, or solidarity in reproduction and parenting; and examines
the role of hope, disappointment, and ambivalence in reproductive narratives.
We welcome both qualitative and quantitative research papers focusing on any
part of the reproduction and parenting process, and encourage papers to speak
to the personal as well as the public, or to link both.
We are seeking to submit a double panel of 6 papers on experiences of
reproduction and parenting to fall within the Medicine, Health and Illness
stream at the BSA Annual conference.
Oral presentations will be allocated 20 minutes (15 minute presentation and 5
minute questions).
We intend in due course to publish papers from this panel (subject to review
processes) as a journal special issue, so we particularly encourage papers
based on original research which can be prepared for publication in the 4
months following the conference.
If interested, please send a 250 word abstract with a short biog to [log in to unmask] by **11 October 2016**. Accepted papers will be notified by
noon on 13 October 2016. (If your paper is not accepted for our panel, you can
still submit an abstract directly to the BSA.)
The BSA Annual Conference theme for 2017 is Recovering the Social: Personal
Troubles and Public Issues.
For more information about the conference, please visit:
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/bsa-annual-conference
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Dr Zeynep B. Gürtin
Visiting Researcher, Centre for Family Research
and Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Sociology
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RF
Tel: (+44) 07967 308989
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