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Dear ARM Members and Friends, Andrea O’Reilly will be in Little Rock, AK for a conference Nov 4-8 and Montreal, QC for a Fellowship Nov 11- Dec 10. While there, she should like to do some interviews for her being a mother in academe research. For more information on this study, please visit www.yorku.ca/arm If […]

MOTHERHOOD & PHILOSOPHY: WHAT PHILOSOPHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT MOTHERS AND WHAT MOTHERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT PHILOSOPHY Sheila Lintott (ed.) Department of Philosophy Bucknell University Abstracts with titles are solicited for a new volume in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, under the general series editorship of Fritz Allhoff. As with previous titles now […]

Amy Hudock, Founding Co-Editor of Literary Mama writes this of the ARM conference: This weekend, I got on a plane for the first time in over four years. To go out of the country. Without my daughter. With lots of other mamas. I’m talking about the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) Conference at York […]

“Mama’s Boy” columnist Jessica Berger Gross’ anthology About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing and Hope is featured in Cookie magazine. Read the article here.

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Call for Papers Submit abstracts for papers or panels Approximately 750 words Due January 31, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. E-mail submissions or questions to PCM_Conference@yahoo.com Include a cover sheet with name, institution, department,and contact information. Document should be submitted in MS Word (.doc file). For further details and registration information, please link to: (www.uoregon.edu/~uophil/events.html) Hosted […]

Check out the latest book by Tamar Chansky….an earlier book of Dr. Chansky’s called, “Freeing Your Child From Anxiety” was extremely helpful to my family. Dr. Chansky says, “As a child psychologist I know it’s one thing to give lip service to the idea that failure is “good” for kids, it is wholly another to […]

I am currently setting the Agnus Dei from the liturgical mass for male voices and piano and am looking for supplemental words from a living poet to compliment the Latin text. If interested, please send your work to shelbypug@hotmail.com. This is not competition – no prize award, but you will be credited in the completed […]

BF s. Frenemies. Gal pals. Female friendships are such a unique, fragile entity that there are even words made up to describe them. And if you’re female and reading this, you know all too well exactly why. From the best friend who drops everything for you, to the subtle (or not-so-subtle) underminer, to the one […]

Check out the Media Bistro mention of LM columnist, Bare Breasted Mama: When Gail Konop Baker showed up at an impromptu interview wearing a T-shirt like the one on the cover of her new memoir, Cancer Is a Bitch, we were curious: Between the cover artist and the T-shirt designer, who’d inspired who? She told […]

A River & Sound Review announces its first reading period. From Oct. 1 thru Dec. 31, RSR will accept submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and humor to be considered for inclusion in the forthcoming RSR online literary journal. All submissions will be accepted via e-mail: Visit www.riverandsoundreview.org/submitRSR.htm for details. For more information on A River […]