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.

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