“Reframing Birth and Breastfeeding: Moving Forward”

A meeting co-sponsored by:
The Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium Series (Center for Women’s Health and Wellness, UNCG, and Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, UNC-CH)
and
The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) 

March 11-12, Chapel Hill, NC

Registration information is at the website for the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. Click here:

Academic scholars, practitioners, and activists from the US and beyond gather in North Carolina for the Breastfeeding and Feminism symposium Series.
These gatherings are a transdisciplinary effort to address breastfeeding as a public health priority, using feminist perspectives to emphasize the impact of gender and other forms of social stratification on individual women as they feed their babies. Over the years, the themes of the symposia have included Reproductive Health and Rights and Justice. This year, Breastfeeding and Feminism: Reframing Birth and Breastfeeding -- Moving forward, will address the many different "frames" that we use to conceptualize, discuss, and "market," breastfeeding promotion, protection, and support.

For the first time, the organizers of the Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposia are working in full collaboration with the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services to offer participants an even greater diversity of topics and speakers. This collaborative conference will include joint sessions and two tracks of concurrent sessions: a CIMS track and a Breastfeeding and Feminism track.

The symposium is addresses the interests of scholars, health professionals, policy makers and advocates interested in feminist, public health, clinical, legal, socio-cultural and historic approaches to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding. For additional background on the symposium visit www.uncg.edu/ cwhw or visit www.motherfriendly.org (click on CIMS annual forum).

The deadline for oral presentations is past. Below are the instructions for submission of abstracts for poster presentation. Abstracts are due for review by January 1, 2011 and notification of acceptance will be sent soon after submission.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
We invite 250-WORD abstracts for review as possible poster presentations. Poster presentations may be empirical or theoretical, conceptual or literary. We
invite poster presentations related to breastfeeding interventions, breastfeeding constraints and realities, or the relationships between breastfeeding and gender, feminism, work, pumping, medicalization, commercialization or other related topics.

Abstracts are limited to 250 words. In addition please include: title, all authors and affiliations, and, if appropriate, 1-2 related references authored by the
speaker. These are not to be counted in the 250 word limit.

Submission: Please send the proposed abstract to Thea Calhoun-Smith at dorothea_calhoun@unc.edu in Microsoft word by January 1, 2011.

Notification of acceptance to the symposium will occur soon after submission.

Additional:
·Acceptance for presentation or poster assumes your attendance at the two-day event March 11 and 12, 2011.

-Early bird registration ends January 28, 2011.

-Conference registration will not be waived for poster presenters; no travel or honoraria will be provided.