Post by ENGAGE administrator on Feb 28, 2013 18:31:23 GMT -5
"The loss of a desired pregnancy and the inability to experience pregnancy are intensely personal phenomena; these losses are also, in our culture at least, extremely (and some would argue, inexplicably) private. There is no shortage of books that help prospective parents through the process of recovering from an unintended pregnancy loss or "dealing with" or "surviving" infertility, whether that fertility is explained or unexplained. Most of these books, however, are authored by physicians or therapists and address these issues through the language of guidance, advice, questions and answers, as well as a variety of coping strategies. Even within those books that include the voices of women and their partners (acquired through interviews) who have experienced a miscarriage or other forms of pregnancy loss, the voices are segmented; the choice of what part of the story to include is the decision of the researcher/editor.
This book is currently under contract with Peter Lang Publishing and will a part of the Health Communication Series (series editor: Gary Kreps) with an expected publication date of Summer 2014. For this edited collection, we'd like to include the first-person narratives of individuals who have experienced miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy loss, and/or infertility or who have undergone treatment for infertility. Each of these narratives will be accompanied by an author-crafted analysis that employs concepts and theories of narrative. Examples of such concepts and theories include but are not limited to:
Roland Barthes (structural analysis)
Mary Field Belenky et al. (subjective voice)
Helmut Bonheim (narrative modes)
Howard Brody (narrative ethics)
Kenneth Burke (dramatism)
Joseph Campbell (the hero's journey)
Rita Charon (narrative medicine)
Walter Fisher (the narrative paradigm)
Arthur Frank (quest, restitution, & chaos narratives)
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins (pathographies)
Kristen Langellier (narrative and performance)
Julia Kristeva (women's time)
Paul Ricoeur (time and narrative)
Marie-Laure Ryan (narrative as virtual reality)
Robin Warhol (feminist narratology)
Our vision for this project contains two distinct sections: lay perspectives and clinical perspectives. We believe such an approach will 1) serve to inform individuals (whether lay or professional) and couples for whom the current information may lack the depth that can only come from a storyteller and 2) provide for students of health communication examples of narratives that are not reflective of dominant (i.e. biomedical) discourses.
Here are some specific narratives we're looking for:
* Lesbians or lesbian couples who have experienced pregnancy loss
* Gay men or gay couples who have experience pregnancy loss
* Women and/or couples of color who have experienced pregnancy loss
* Narratives of pregnancy loss from 30-50 years ago
* Narratives involving couples experiencing relational disintegration before, during, or after pregnancy loss
* Narratives of surrogates or of women and/or couples who have employed surrogates
* Narratives involving a crisis of faith
* Nurses providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Primary care physicians providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Doulas/midwives providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Counselors and/or grief therapists providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Reiki practitioners, acupuncturists, and/or massage therapists providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
"Bodies need voices," writes Arthur Frank in The Wounded Storyteller. And we know there is an audience for the kind of story you might tell about your experience.
Deadlines:
Chapter Proposals: April 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2013
Completed Chapters: July 15, 2013
Please include in your Chapter Proposal:
* A 500-word abstract of your narrative (including working title)
* A 100-150 word bio
* A copy of your vita (including courses taught).
Submission Guidelines:
* Submissions should be grounded in one or more concepts or theories related to narrative and offer an analysis of the narrative appropriate for a college classroom
* Submissions should be in APA format and created in MSWord
* Final page length and style will vary depending on author and story; we encourage inventive/imaginative forms of storytelling
* Please send submissions to both rachelesilverman@gmail.com and jaybags01@hotmail.com with Pregnancy Loss Narrative in the subject line
Thank you in advance for your interest. Please don't hesitate to contact either of us if you have questions. We will do our best to answer them."
Editors:
Rachel E. Silverman, PhD Jay Baglia, PhD
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University DePaul University
Daytona Beach, FL Chicago, IL
rachelesilverman@gmail.com wbaglia@depaul.edu
215-518-3367 512-529-7593
This book is currently under contract with Peter Lang Publishing and will a part of the Health Communication Series (series editor: Gary Kreps) with an expected publication date of Summer 2014. For this edited collection, we'd like to include the first-person narratives of individuals who have experienced miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy loss, and/or infertility or who have undergone treatment for infertility. Each of these narratives will be accompanied by an author-crafted analysis that employs concepts and theories of narrative. Examples of such concepts and theories include but are not limited to:
Roland Barthes (structural analysis)
Mary Field Belenky et al. (subjective voice)
Helmut Bonheim (narrative modes)
Howard Brody (narrative ethics)
Kenneth Burke (dramatism)
Joseph Campbell (the hero's journey)
Rita Charon (narrative medicine)
Walter Fisher (the narrative paradigm)
Arthur Frank (quest, restitution, & chaos narratives)
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins (pathographies)
Kristen Langellier (narrative and performance)
Julia Kristeva (women's time)
Paul Ricoeur (time and narrative)
Marie-Laure Ryan (narrative as virtual reality)
Robin Warhol (feminist narratology)
Our vision for this project contains two distinct sections: lay perspectives and clinical perspectives. We believe such an approach will 1) serve to inform individuals (whether lay or professional) and couples for whom the current information may lack the depth that can only come from a storyteller and 2) provide for students of health communication examples of narratives that are not reflective of dominant (i.e. biomedical) discourses.
Here are some specific narratives we're looking for:
* Lesbians or lesbian couples who have experienced pregnancy loss
* Gay men or gay couples who have experience pregnancy loss
* Women and/or couples of color who have experienced pregnancy loss
* Narratives of pregnancy loss from 30-50 years ago
* Narratives involving couples experiencing relational disintegration before, during, or after pregnancy loss
* Narratives of surrogates or of women and/or couples who have employed surrogates
* Narratives involving a crisis of faith
* Nurses providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Primary care physicians providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Doulas/midwives providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Counselors and/or grief therapists providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
* Reiki practitioners, acupuncturists, and/or massage therapists providing a single case study of a pregnancy loss
"Bodies need voices," writes Arthur Frank in The Wounded Storyteller. And we know there is an audience for the kind of story you might tell about your experience.
Deadlines:
Chapter Proposals: April 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2013
Completed Chapters: July 15, 2013
Please include in your Chapter Proposal:
* A 500-word abstract of your narrative (including working title)
* A 100-150 word bio
* A copy of your vita (including courses taught).
Submission Guidelines:
* Submissions should be grounded in one or more concepts or theories related to narrative and offer an analysis of the narrative appropriate for a college classroom
* Submissions should be in APA format and created in MSWord
* Final page length and style will vary depending on author and story; we encourage inventive/imaginative forms of storytelling
* Please send submissions to both rachelesilverman@gmail.com and jaybags01@hotmail.com with Pregnancy Loss Narrative in the subject line
Thank you in advance for your interest. Please don't hesitate to contact either of us if you have questions. We will do our best to answer them."
Editors:
Rachel E. Silverman, PhD Jay Baglia, PhD
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University DePaul University
Daytona Beach, FL Chicago, IL
rachelesilverman@gmail.com wbaglia@depaul.edu
215-518-3367 512-529-7593