Histoire de la médecine reproductive au Canada

CFP: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History special issue on Reproductive Health History in Canada

guest editors Shannon Stettner and Tracy Penny Light

Women’s bodies have always been sites of struggle – over meanings and for control. The most polarizing conflicts involve women’s reproductive health and autonomy. Women’s bodies are a terrain contested by and between the medical establishment, the state, churches, the media, and activists. Battles over meanings and rights also pit men against women and women against one another. Further complicating these conflicts are issues of race, class, gender, and heteronormativity. Article submissions should seek to illuminate these struggles for meaning and control in innovative ways.

Subjects may include, but are not limited to:
-abortion
-contraception
-pregnancy
-sterilization
-in/fertility, treatments and technologies
-surrogacy
-adoption
-gynaecological health
-menopause
-sexuality
-breastfeeding
-reproductive health activism

Scholars are invited to submit articles by November 1, 2012. Articles should not exceed 9,000 words (including endnotes). Further submissions guidelines can be found at: http://www.cbmh.ca/index.php/cbmh/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

For more information or to submit a paper, please contact Shannon Stettner at rhhincanada@gmail.com.

General timeline for special issue:
Article submissions due November 1, 2012
Decision letters on refereed articles March/April 2013
Revised articles due September 2013
Publication 2014 (second issue)