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Subject: Fwd: Reminder CFP Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices deadline March 15

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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:54:30 -0600
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Subject: Reminder CFP Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid
Parenting Practices deadline March 15
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CALL FOR PAPERS ~ Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited
collection Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
Co-Editors: Fiona Green and May Friedman

Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. Mothers may struggle
with shifts in their own subjectivity and the peculiar conjoinment of
parenthood. As women experience the unique powerlessness of
motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as agents
of socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may
feel the desire for feminist parenting while experiencing a backlash
and a lack of support, while some parents may attempt to resist the
binaries of mothering and fathering in their feminist parenting journey.

Feminist parents may attempt to resist gender binaries; they may
submit to them while attempting to foster critical dialogue; they may
struggle with the display of their own femininity and masculinity or,
for some, its perceived lack. For some parents a dialogue about gender
normativity may be inspired by gender-diverse behavior on the part of
their own children, while others may parent children who happily
submit to the mainstream and query the need for gender questioning.
Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices attempts
to cast a lens on the messy and convoluted ways that feminist parents
approach parenting their children in gender aware and gender fluid
ways. The collection aims to draw together scholars, activists and
community members to open a conversation about the challenges of
exploring and maintaining an awareness of gender while parenting in a
highly gender normative world.

Because gender is expressed and performed differently in various
places and spaces, and across different ages, this collection welcomes
submissions from feminist parents and from the widest range of
experiences.

Possible approaches may include (but are not limited to):

*Cross-cultural, historical, transnational, comparative and
interdisciplinary modes of inquiry and analysis
*Gender fluid parenting within and beyond cisgendered mother and
father parenting roles
*The challenges and gifts of affective/psychic/embodied
transformations of gender fluid parenting *Media representations and
spectacles of gender fluid/diverse/variant
families
*Alternative visual and artistic depictions of gender variant
socialization in/of family life *Racialization of gender variant
parenting/family discourses
*Gender diverse self-help parenting texts
*Community based gender variant/diverse/fluid family activism and organizing
*Commodification of gender fluid and gender variant families
*Practical and theoretical ways of complicating and shaping fluid
gender expression
*Broad social and historical forces that impact what can be done and
said in the name of gender diverse families

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be 250 words. Please also include a brief biography
(50 words) with citizenship.
Please send to: [log in to unmask], Ryerson University, 350
Victoria St., Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
AND [log in to unmask], University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave.,
Winnipeg, MB R3T 1M5.

Deadline for Abstracts is March 15, 2012 & Deadline for Acceptances is
May 15, 2012.
Accepted papers not exceeding 15 pages (3750 words) will be due
February 15, 2013 and should be formatted according to MLA guidelines.

The book is to have 50 percent Canadian content, so Canadian
contributors are especially encouraged to submit.




Fiona J. Green, PhD
Acting Associate Dean of Arts,
Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Co-Director, Institute for Women's & Gender Studies
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave.
Wpg. MB. R3B 2E9
PH: 204.786.9409
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www.iwgs.ca



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