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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Who’s Your Mama: The Voices of Unsung Women and Mothers http://www.yvonnebynoe.com/Whos-Your-Mama.html Looking for women writers in the U.S. who are mothers, trying to become mothers and who are childless by choice or circumstance There are so many books published about the motherhood experiences of affluent, married, White women, books that often revolve […]

CALL FOR PAPERS Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) 12th Annual Conference! Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War, and Social Justice October 23-25, 2008 We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, NGOs, community agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage […]

Mamazine has sent out a call for photos…. We know you have a lot of adorable photos of your kids. I currently have 12,571 photos in my iPhoto and probably 11,491 of those are of my kids. Well, now it’s time to shine a little light on you, Mama. And not just the smiley, huggy, […]

December 2007 December 2 Sunday 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. $10 at the door The Citadel Holliday Alumni House, Hagood Avenue Parking is available at the Johnson Hagood Stadium. Light refreshments provided and gift wrapping available for $1. Lowcountry Women Authors Holiday Book Signing Meet 30+ local authors and have your holiday gift purchases personally […]

Literary Mama Publicity and Marketing Manager and Columnist Elrena Evans will be at the Local Author Book Fair in Phoenixville, PA this Thursday, November 29th, from 5:00-8:30. If you live in the area, stop by and say hi! Elrena will be selling copies of Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, in which she has an essay […]

Women’s Worlds 2008 Conference – Madrid – please submit your proposed papers to ARM asap! DECEMBER 1st DEADLINE!!!! Dear ARM Members and Friends, WW2008 is Women’s Worlds 2008, the International Interdisciplinary Congress of Women held every four years in different parts of the world. In 2008, it will be in Madrid, July 3-8. The Congress […]

White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood edited by Rishma Dunlop, published by Demeter Press http://www.yorku.ca/arm/whiteink.html For ordering details contact Renée Knapp, 416-736-2100 Ext. 60366 Edited by poet Rishma Dunlop, White Ink is a unique collection of poems on mothers and motherhood, by some of the finest poets of the late twentieth and early twenty-first […]

Annie Kassof, a single mother of two in Berkeley, sent us this short review of Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream by Ruth Sidel (University of California Press, 2006, $17.95) Hunter College professor of sociology Ruth Sidel’s newest book, Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream, is a testament to the strength […]

Announcing issue number seventeen of Miranda, CNF co-editor Kate Haas’s zine about motherhood. This issue features the essay “Waldorf School Dropout” (gnomes and knitting don’t make up for a hellish teacher); a discussion about using your child’s card to reserve extra books at the library (clever strategem or unethical scam?); the account of a maternal […]

The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)/ Demeter Press is thrilled to announce the release of our fourth title – White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood edited by Rishma Dunlop (October 2007) Please join us! Book Launch Celebration Monday, November 12, 2007 7-10 pm Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto […]

The Daring book for Girls by authors Andi Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz has received a lot of press since it hit the bookshelves this month. In the Sunday New York Times Style section, Liesl Schillinger writes, “In the “Daring Book for Girls,” the authors mix inspiring tales of girls who made good (mostly familiar names […]