Andrea O'Reilly
Andrea O'Reilly (born 1961) is the founder of Motherhood Studies and currently a professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1]
Career
O'Reilly founded the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) at York University in 1998 and ran it until it closed in 2010.[2] Its disbandment led to the inception of a new organization, the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI).[3] She is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, now the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.[3] In 2006, as director of ARM, she founded Demeter Press, the first feminist press on motherhood. As well, she is founder of the feminist mothers group "Mother Outlaws".[4]
She is also the author or editor of eighteen books on motherhood.[5]
Selected works
As author
- — (2004). Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-6075-7. Search this book on
[6] - — (2006). Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Feminism, Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering. Demeter Press. ISBN 1-55014-449-9. Search this book on [7]
As editor
- Abbey, Sharon; —, eds. (1998). Redefining Motherhood: Changing Identities and Patterns. Second Story Press. ISBN 978-1-896764-06-1. Search this book on
- —, ed. (2004). Mother Matters: Motherhood as Discourse and Practice; Essays from the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering. Toronto: Association for Research on Mothering. ISBN 978-1-55014-436-9. OCLC 54501026. Search this book on [8]
- —, ed. (2004). From Motherhood to Mothering: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-6288-1. Search this book on
- —; Porter, Marie; Short, Patricia, eds. (25 August 2005). Motherhood: Power and Oppression. Canadian Scholars' Press. ISBN 978-0-88961-454-3. Search this book on
- —, ed. (2010). Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Sage. doi:10.4135/9781412979276. Search this book on [9]
- —, ed. (2014). Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences: A Reader. Chicago: Demeter Press. ISBN 978-1-927335-75-8. Search this book on [10]
Personal life
O’Reilly is the mother of feminist author Clementine Morrigan.[11][12]
References
- ↑ "Andrea O'Reilly". Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. York University. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2026-09-27.
- ↑ "Motherhood association to close". CBC News. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Epp Buller, Rachel (June 4, 2014). "Andrea O'Reilly: Motherhood is NOT a Liability". LiteraryMama.com. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ↑ "Andrea O'Reilly". us.sagepub.com. SAGE Publications Inc. 9 May 2024.
- ↑ Lindsay, Sandy (June 30, 2018). "Professor Andrea O'Reilly speaks on motherhood yesterday and today". Saugeen Times.
- ↑ Reviews of Toni Morrison and Motherhood
- Conner, Marc (2007). "Review of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart". South Atlantic Review. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 72 (1): 239–243. ISSN 0277-335X.
- Mori, Aoi (2006). "Review of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart". African American Review. [Indiana State University, Saint Louis University, African American Review, African American Review (St. Louis University)]. 40 (1): 177–180. ISSN 1062-4783.
- Valdés, Vanessa K. (2005). "Review of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart". MELUS. [Oxford University Press, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)]. 30 (3): 259–261. ISSN 0163-755X.
- ↑ Review of Rocking the Cradle:
- Knott, Christine (1 January 2009). "Andrea O'Reilly. Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering". Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice. 33 (2): 102–103. doi:10.7202/1120899ar. ISSN 1715-0698.
- ↑ Review of Mother Matters
- Rabe, Marlize (2005). "Review of Mother Matters: Motherhood as Discourse and Practice". Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 36 (4): 670–671. ISSN 0047-2328.
- ↑ Reviews of Encyclopedia of Motherhood
- Dill, Emily (2010). "Review of Encyclopedia of Motherhood". Reference & User Services Quarterly. American Library Association. 50 (2): 189–189. ISSN 1094-9054.
- McDevitt, T. (November 2010). "Encyclopedia of motherhood". Choice; Middletown. 48 (3). pp. 476–477. ProQuest 762457969.
- Gross, Asia (December 2010). "Encyclopedia of motherhood". The Booklist, Chicago. 107 (7). p. 67. ProQuest 816752372.
- ↑ Review of Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences
- Villalobos, Ana (2015). "Review of Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences: A Reader". Gender and Society. Sage Publications, Inc. 29 (5): 747–749. ISSN 0891-2432.
- ↑ Ross, Oakland (2010-04-18). "What happens when a mothering expert loses her daughter". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2026-09-27.
- ↑ O'Reilly, Andrea; Abbey, Sharon (2000-03-29). Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 978-0-8476-9487-7. Search this book on
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