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The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, pol...
Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. ...
In the last decade, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood resea...
Writings on Mothering and Motherhood, 2009-2024
Dr. Andrea O'Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies (2006) and its subfield Maternal Theory (2007), and creator of ...
Theory, Activism, and Practice
"The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman and that many of the problems mothers face-socially, economically,...
Regulations, Representations, and Reclamations
A central aim of motherhood studies is to examine and theorize normative motherhood. Where does it come from? What are its defining features and deman...
The 2nd edition includes a new preface that considers how matricentric feminism in positioning mothering as a verb affords a gender-neutral understand...
A Politics of the Heart
Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews. Mothering is a central is...
Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothe...
Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. Internat...
Family Matters in the British and American Novel examines the literature that challenges and alters widely held assumptions about the form of the fami...
Legacy of a Diaspora
One hundred testimonies on the Cuban diaspora are gathered together from narratives, interviews, creative writing, letters, journal entries, photograp...
Margarita, an exile in the United States, is struggling to come to terms with her divided identity, a past she has suppressed, and her failure to shar...
Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada
Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature....
Setting the Tent Against the House
As an island—a geographical space with mutable and porous borders—Cuba has never been a fixed cultural, political, or geographical entity. Migrati...
Thoughts on Feminism, Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering
The oppressive and the empowering dimensions of maternity, as well as the complex relationship between the two, first identified by Adrienne Rich in O...
Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism
Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers? needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory ...
Theory, Activism, Practice
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Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak Out on Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century
The themes and issues explored are many: midwifery, intensive mothering, food allergies, workplace flexibility, family meals, childcare, education, po...
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Troubling Tropes
Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the sour...
25 Years of Bridging Courses for Women at York University
Perspectives on the SlutWalk Movement
"In April 2011, a team of five people put together Slutwalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a...