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  • Toni Morrison and Motherhood

    A Politics of the Heart

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Mothering is a central issue for feminist theory, and motherhood is also a persistent presence in the work of Toni Morrison. Examining Morrison's novels ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Matricentric Feminism

    Theory, Activism, Practice

    by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    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, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—are specific to women’s role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy as women and as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a feminism of their own, one that positions mothers’ ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Matricentric Feminism

    Theory, Activism, Practice. The 2nd Edition

    by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    The new preface to the 2nd edition,”Matricentric Feminism: Beyond Gender and Towards Resistant and Inclusive Mothering,” explores four central concerns of matricentric feminism: the specific political import and intent of racialized women’s motherwork, the radical queering of empowered mothering, the real and prevalent oppressions of motherwork, and the foregrounding of mothers and mothering in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Maternal Theory

    Essential Readings

    by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 50 chapters and covering more than three decades of scholarship, Maternal Theory includes all the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Gone Feral

    Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity

    Edited by Dr. Andrea O’Reilly, Casey O’Reilly-Conlin ...
    Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity is an edited collection that probes the concept of ferality as it relates to and intersects with traditional, patriarchal dictates of normative femininity. The collection, appropriately, is a creative hodge-podge of feral representations and enactments that span multiple disciplines and social and existential dimensions and utilizes ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Maternal Regret

    Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections

    Edited by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    This collection considers how maternal regret, as it is conveyed in remorse, resentment, dissatisfaction, and disappointment, troubles the assumptions and mandates of normative motherhood and how it is explored and critiqued in creative non-fiction, film, literature, and social media. Maternal regret is also examined in relation to the estrangement of mother and child and the remorse and grief ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Mother Wave

    Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism

    Edited by Dr. Andrea O’Reilly, Fiona Joy Green ...
    Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers’ needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic on and for the empowerment of women as mothers. Based on the conviction that mothering is a verb, it understands that becoming and being a mother is not limited to biological mothers or cisgender women but rather to anyone who does the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Revolutionizing Motherlines

    Edited by Dr. Fiona Joy Green, Dr. Victoria Bailey, Dr. Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Revolutionizing Motherlines reflects upon and troubles current and historical understandings of Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s concept of the motherline that connects mothers to their female ancestors. Complicated histories of erasure and threads of hope are tied together with intellectually engaging and emotionally resonant dialogues about maternal lineage to illuminate previously silenced motherlines of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Coming into Being

    Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism

    Edited by Andrea O’Reilly, Victoria Bailey, Fiona Joy Green ...
    This collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be shaped by, and interconnected with, how mothers realize feminism and/or become feminists. Experiences of motherhood can involve unique discriminations and oppressions, as well as new challenges and possibilities. What may have been overlooked, tolerated, or perhaps even gone unnoticed before becoming a mother, can become overtly ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19

    Dispatches from the Pandemic

    Edited by Dr. Andrea O’Reilly, Dr. Fiona Joy Green ...
    There has been little public discussion on the devastating impact of Covid-19 on mothers, or a public acknowledgement that mothering is frontline work in this pandemic. This collection of 45 chapters and with 70 contributors is the first to explore the impact of the pandemic on mothers’ care and wage labour in the context of employment, schooling, communities, families, and the relationships of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • This Is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like

    Perspectives on the SlutWalk Movement

    Edited by Alyssa Teekah, Erika Jane Scholz, May Friedman, Andrea O’Reilly ...
    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 recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In the name of campus “safety”, Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized”. The sentiment of those in the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Normative Motherhood

    Regulations, Representations, and Reclamations

    Edited by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    A central aim of motherhood studies is to examine and theorize normative motherhood. Where does it come from? What are its defining features and demands? How does it work as a regulatory discourse and practice across differences of age, class, race, ability, sexuality, and region? What is the impact of normative motherhood on women’s lives? What does an intersectional analysis of normative ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD