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Call for Papers – Dossier TSANTSA 12/2007

TSANTSA, the review of the Swiss Anthropological Society, invites papers 
for its 12/2007 edition on the special theme:

Other engenderings: pregnancy in situations of social and physiological 
disorder

*deadline for abstracts: 21.6.2006*

How is pregnancy lived for women with serious illnesses or HIV 
infection? What happens after a prenatal diagnosis of fetal malformation 
or genetic illness? How do women and society deal with « illegitimate » 
pregnancies or those resulting from rape or incestuous relationships? 
How can we approach the question of alcoholic, abused or handicapped 
future mothers? Despite much recent work in the anthropology of 
reproduction, particularly in relation to medically assisted 
reproductive technologies, few researchers in the social sciences have 
explored the hidden sides of pregnancy. The greater part of the existing 
literature deals with sterility, abortion and perinatal death, as if 
non-birth were the only possible contrary to “perfect” birth. And yet, 
pregnancy and birth in situations of physiological disorder or in 
violation of established social norms are part of life. Both cases 
provide privileged terrain for the analysis of the practices and 
representations underlying the symbolic construction of personhood, and 
open new ways to ask what makes society.

With this Call for Papers, Tsantsa seeks contributions on one or more of 
these themes, based on research in either hemisphere. We seek articles 
from anthropologists, historians or sociologists that examine the 
social, ritual, medical or legal responses to these marginal 
pregnancies. We encourage work based on empirical research that 
integrates the experiences not only of mothers but also attitudes of 
fathers and the familial, medical and social surroundings in which these 
pregnancies unfold. Priority will be given to those articles that 
demonstrate what a study of marginal pregnancies can bring to current 
debates in the social sciences and in the field of public health.

Paper proposals of 300-500 words together with a short biographical note 
should be sent to:
Saskia Walentowitz ([log in to unmask]).

The *deadline for proposals is June 21st, 2006*.

The final versions of the paper are due at the 15th of October 2006.

For further information regarding TSANTSA as well as for more details on 
our publishing policy, please go to:
http://www.seg-sse.ch/.

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