Events

WHAT: Launch of International Mothers Network – The First Ever Global Consortium Of Motherhood Organizations WHEN: Sunday, March 8th International Women’s Day WHERE: A virtual launch is online, in blog-spheres, youtube, within collective maternal activist communities and websites and in academia across the world with participation by thousands. Walk, Write, Talk, Share, Watch, Blog, Attend […]

The following is information about an upcoming conference that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting on February 28. The conference, entitled “The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life,” will take up many of the questions that surround the increasing use of assisted reproductive technologies and adoption to build families. Propelled by […]

Title of Event: The Maternal is Political When: Saturday, January 17, 2009 7:00 PM Location: BookWoman: 5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105, Austin, TX Celebrate the inauguration with a night for unruly mothers (and the people who love them) at Texas’s only feminist bookstore! Featuring Shari MacDonald Strong (editor of The Maternal Is Political and a […]

As the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) has done in the past, we are planning 2-3 panels on topics of mothering/motherhood for the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) 2009 Conference, “DIFFICULT DIALOGUES” November 12-15, 2009 Atlanta, GA. If you are interested in presenting on one these panels, or have a panel you’d like to […]

Belladonna* Announces: Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering CUNY Graduate Center, September 24-25, 2009 In celebration of its tenth year, Belladonna* will join with The CUNY Graduate Center’s Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Center for Research on Women and Society, Center for Humanities, English Department, and Poetics Group to present a conference aimed at advancing […]

Inspiring Mother* Voices featuring Shari MacDonald Strong editor of The Maternal is Political: Women Writers at the intersection of Motherhood and Social Change; Jen Parsons, Mothers Acting Up and Run for Congo organizer; and Amie Nelson, currently writing Inspiring Mothers. Everywhere we turn the word “crisis” is in the air — the financial crisis, the […]

The producers of What’s Your Point, Honey? (see Mama at the Movies column on the film) will offer a 20% discount on purchase of the DVD for Literary Mama readers. The film makes a great gift for parents, teachers, your nieces and nephews, cousins and babysitters. For more information, visit the film’s website and use […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Mama, PhD-reader project: We are exploring opportunities for stay-at-home Parents Holding Doctorates (PHD) to use their training and expertise in creative ways. JOIN US! Monday October 13, 2008 7:00-8:00 pm OR Wednesday October 15, 2008 1:00-2:00 pm Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Road Columbus, OH 43215 For more information, please contact Joan Herbers […]

Wed., October 8, 7:30pm–PORTLAND, OR–Powell’s, 1005 W. Burnside *Amy Richards, author of Opting In: Having a Child without Losing Yourself and Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Abortion & Life. *Cosponsored by Literary Mama and Bitch Magazine. In 2004, Jennifer Baumgardner created the “I Had an Abortion” campaign to encourage women (and men) to “come out” about […]