[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Papers: pregnancy in situations of social and physiological disorder

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*OTHER ENGENDERINGS pregnancy in situations of social and physiological
disorder*

	

	

	

Call for Papers – Dossier TSANTSA 12/2007

TSANTSA, the review of the Swiss Anthropological Society, invites papers
for its 12/2007 edition on the special theme:

Other engenderings: pregnancy in situations of social and physiological
disorder

*deadline for abstracts: 21.6.2006*

How is pregnancy lived for women with serious illnesses or HIV
infection? What happens after a prenatal diagnosis of fetal malformation
or genetic illness? How do women and society deal with « illegitimate »
pregnancies or those resulting from rape or incestuous relationships?
How can we approach the question of alcoholic, abused or handicapped
future mothers? Despite much recent work in the anthropology of
reproduction, particularly in relation to medically assisted
reproductive technologies, few researchers in the social sciences have
explored the hidden sides of pregnancy. The greater part of the existing
literature deals with sterility, abortion and perinatal death, as if
non-birth were the only possible contrary to “perfect” birth. And yet,
pregnancy and birth in situations of physiological disorder or in
violation of established social norms are part of life. Both cases
provide privileged terrain for the analysis of the practices and
representations underlying the symbolic construction of personhood, and
open new ways to ask what makes society.

With this Call for Papers, Tsantsa seeks contributions on one or more of
these themes, based on research in either hemisphere. We seek articles
from anthropologists, historians or sociologists that examine the
social, ritual, medical or legal responses to these marginal
pregnancies. We encourage work based on empirical research that
integrates the experiences not only of mothers but also attitudes of
fathers and the familial, medical and social surroundings in which these
pregnancies unfold. Priority will be given to those articles that
demonstrate what a study of marginal pregnancies can bring to current
debates in the social sciences and in the field of public health.

Paper proposals of 300-500 words together with a short biographical note
should be sent to:
Saskia Walentowitz (walentowitz at anthro.unibe.ch).

The *deadline for proposals is June 21st, 2006*.

The final versions of the paper are due at the 15th of October 2006.

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our publishing policy, please go to:
http://www.seg-sse.ch/.

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