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.
Submissions and questions to marembis@buffalo.edu