Call for Chapters: Historic and Current Perspectives on International
Adoption and Cold War Maternalism in the US
Historian Molly Ladd-Taylor defines maternalism as a politicized
ideology that combined a uniquely feminine value system of care and
nurturance with a woman’s capacity for motherhood and duty to properly
raise future generations of citizens. Other scholars have referred to
maternalism, and therefore motherhood, as an institution, a form of
government. They have asserted the white, Christian, and modern aspects
of motherhood, especially with respect to nation-building.
During the
Cold War era in the United States, maternalism underwent a
transformation due to the prioritization of sustaining middle-class
families because of collective fears of the spread of communism. Cold
War maternalism builds from all of these definitions and expands
motherhood to parenthood, more specifically, adoptive parenthood. Using
the immediate aftermath of the Korean War as a beginning contextual
point, Cold War maternalism asserts that by adopting biracial Korean
children into white American homes, American adoptive parents not only
fulfilled their civic duty to build and maintain middle-class, nuclear
families, but also built a broader ideology that the United States was
the only fit “mother” to the children of postwar South Korea.
Even
though our socio-cultural and political contexts have shifted since the
mid 1950s, this broader aspect of maternalism can certainly be applied
to other child-removal schemes throughout American history, as well as
contemporary issues related to foster care, family separations at the
U.S. – Mexico border, and international transracial adoption from other
countries.
Objective:
This book will
aim to provide relevant topical information that examines child-removal
schemes, both historic and contemporary, using a Cold War maternalist
framework. Contents may include relevant theoretical frameworks, and
empirical research findings in areas of foster care, adoption, and
family separation from a maternalist perspective. It will be written for
professionals who want to improve their understanding of how the
features of maternalism in general, and more specifically, Cold War
maternalism, have been a part of the American child welfare system with
respect to child-removal, and the impacts of this throughout history and
within current contexts.
Guidelines:
Researchers and writers are invited to submit on or before May 25,
2019, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors will be notified
by June 15, 2019 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter
guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 23,
2019, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for
manuscript submissions.
All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a
double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve
as reviewers for this project.
Note:
There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts
submitted to this book publication, Historic and Current Perspectives on
International Adoption and Cold War Maternalism in the US. All
manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial
process.
All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery®TM online submission manager.
For any questions and inquiries please contact Shawyn C. Lee, University of Minnesota - Duluth, at sclee@d.umn.edu
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