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by Andrea O'Reilly (Author)
The 2nd edition includes a new preface that considers how matricentric feminism in positioning mothering as a verb affords a gender-neutral understanding of motherwork and allows for an appreciation of how motherwork is deeply gendered and how this may be challenged and changed through empowered mothering The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face 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' concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic of empowerment. O'Reilly terms this new mode of feminism matricentic feminism and the book explores how it is represented and experienced in theory, activism, and practice.
Author Biography
Andrea O'Reilly, PhD, is full professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University, founder and director of The Motherhood Initiative (1998-2019), founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press. She is the founder and creator of the Mothers and Covid-19 Facebook Group. She is co-editor/editor of twenty-four books including Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic (2021), Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond (2020) and Feminist Perspectives on Young Mothers and Mothering (20
