Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief
The editorial board is seeking submissions for Vol. 12.2 of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) to be published fall/winter 2010 .
Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief
The journal will explore the topic of Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, social workers, health care workers, and other professionals and community workers. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We also welcome creative reflections such as poetry, short stories, and artwork on the subject.
Topics can include (but are not limited to):
The grief process, emotion and grief; social and cultural support, bereavement self-help and peer-support; bereavement counseling and therapy; _good grief_; the role of health care workers; spiritual care; loss through reproductive and prenatal technology; loss through miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, SIDS; postnatal depression; death of a child through illness, accident, suicide, or homicide; missing or abducted children; death of an adult child through AIDS, in the military, or through violence; infanticide; coping with guilt; child loss and teen moms; mothering surviving children; mothering after the death of a partner; lesbians and child loss; fathers, bereavement and grief; bereavement, grief and depression; the spousal/partner relationship, and relearning life after the death of a child; mothering after losing one_s own parent; representations of widows as mothers, of grief and bereavement in culture and the media; identity of grieving mothers; grieving mothers in the workplace; mothering children whose mother has died: foster mothers, stepmothers, othermothers; grief following a child_s disability diagnosis, grieving the loss of a _perfect_ child; loss of potential motherhood through infertility or abortion; mothers without custody, loss of child to child protection agencies, or incarceration (mother_s or child_s or adult child_s); estrangements between mothers and children; motherless daughters and sons; role loss/exit; divorce; loss of stepchildren through divorce; adoption; measuring loss; matricide, Demeter/Persephone myth; critique of _stages of grief_ models
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Articles should be 15-18 pages (3750 words) including references.
All should be in MLA style, WordPerfect or Word and IBM compatible.
Please see our style guide for complete details:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/styleguide.html
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 1, 2010
** TO SUBMIT WORK ONE MUST BE A MEMBER OF ARM http://www.yorku.ca/arm/armmembership.html
Please direct your submissions to:
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
726 Atkinson, York University,
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: 416-736-2100 X60366 email: arm@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/arm