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Call For Papers
Session for CASCA 2000
Anthropology, Feminism and Child Research: Exploring Connections,
Contributions and Contestations
Co-organizers: Virgina Caputo (Carleton), Pamela Downe (Saskatchewan) and
Jane Helleiner (Brock).
This session will offer a forum for informed debate concerning the
connections between anthropology, feminism and child research. After a
period of relative neglect, a reinvigorated anthropology of childhood has
drawn attention not only to the need to historicize and denaturalize the
concept of childhood, but to the value of analyses of the "cultural
politics of childhood" in the context of local, national and globalized
political economies (Stephens 1995, 1997; Scheper-Hughes and Sargent 1998).
This work has included examination of children and childhood in the context
of social and political dislocation, poverty, war, work, homelessness,
environmental degradation, and human rights. There have also been important
methodological contributions from anthropologists working amongst children.
While some of the recent anthropological child research acknowledges a
theoretical and methodological debt to feminism, much of current work has
yet to fully engage with the broad and diverse insights of contemporary
feminist scholarship. At the same time past feminist writing, including
feminist anthropology, has tended to address childhood only indirectly
(i.e. through the study of women and motherhood); a neglect now being
partially rectified through critical examination of "girlhoods" (Mankekar
1997). This session is designed to explore existing and potential
connections among anthropology, feminisms and child research in the
contexts of theoretical, methodological, historical, textual and/or
ethnographic analyses.
Suggested areas for papers may include:
-feminist theory and child research
-feminist methodology and child research
-the ethnography of gendered childhoods
-gender, childhood and social policy
-gender, childhood and nationalism
Abstracts of 250 words or further enquiries to:
Dr. Jane Helleiner
Department of Child and Youth Studies/Sociology
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
email: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for abstracts is February 15, 2000.
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