CFP: Disabling Domesticity
General Description:
Domesticity – “The quality or condition of being
domestic;” “Home life or devotion to it;” “Household affairs.” Vital work has been done within disability
studies to reimagine sex, sexuality, and disabled bodies and scholars in a
number of fields, including for example, feminist and queer theorists and
women’s historians, have worked to
deconstruct dominant heteronormative notions of domesticity and show the broad
force with which domesticity and domestic life get deployed in various cultural
and political settings. In this edited collection of new and original
scholarship, contributors will focus on the varied “domestic” sites where
intimate human relations are formed and maintained. Sites that are at once
private and racially, economically, and politically inflected and make up the
social, cultural, ideological, and physical spaces where families, friends,
workers, and lovers come together and form the bonds that ultimately sustain
and in some cases destroy our variegated existence.
When
we analyze “domesticity” through the lens of disability,
it forces us to think in new ways about family and household forms, care work,
an ethics of care, reproductive labor, gendered and generational conflicts and
cooperation, local and global economies and political systems. Disabling
Domesticity will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, specialists,
and general academic readers in a broad range of fields. It seeks to model the
interdisciplinary strengths of disability studies.
Potential contributors may propose work that focuses on
any temporal or geographic location. Proposals from all (disability studies)
fields of study, as well as the work of activists and artists are welcome.
Some chapter details:
Chapter length - 5,000-7,000 words (20-25 pages – excluding
footnotes/endnotes)
Essays may have more than one author
Disability and Domesticity may be broadly defined All
temporal and geographic contexts are welcome.
Essays must be new and original scholarship (no reprints
will be
accepted)
Prospective Authors:
Please send CV or Resume and a brief (300-500 word)
abstract of your project by Friday, 3 January 2014.
Full chapter drafts of the project will be due by
February 2015.
You can reach me at marembis@buffalo.edu
All best,
Michael Rembis
Michael Rembis, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Disability Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of History University at
Buffalo
Contact Information:
Department of History
552 Park Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260-4130
phone: (716) 480-6156
fax: (716) 645-5954
email: marembis@buffalo.edu
UBCDS Website: http://disabilitystudies.buffalo.edu/index.php