In (M)other Words
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In (M)other Words

Writings on Mothering and Motherhood, 2009-2024

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eBook - ePub

In (M)other Words

Writings on Mothering and Motherhood, 2009-2024

About this book

Dr. Andrea O' Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies (2006) and its subfield Maternal Theory (2007), and creator of the concept of Matricentric Feminism, a feminism for and about mothers (2016) and Matricritics, a literary theory and practice for a reading of mother-focused texts (2021). With this collection O' Reilly continues the conversation on the meaning and nature of motherhood initiated by Adrienne Rich in Of Woman Born close to fifty years ago. In In (M)other Words, O' Reilly shares 25 of her chapters and articles published between 2009-2024 to examine the oppressive and empowering dimensions of mothering and to explore motherhood as institution, experience, subjectivity, and empowerment. The collection considers the central themes and theories of motherhood studies including normative motherhood, feminist mothering, maternal regret, matricentric pedagogy, young mothers, academic motherhood, matricentric feminism, matricritics, motherhood and feminism, the motherhood memoir, the twenty-first-century motherhood movement, mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, pandemic mothering, and the motherline.

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Information

Publisher
Demeter Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781772585285
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Reviews
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Foreword
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Thinking Through Matricentric Feminism
  10. 2. Dr. Andrea O’Reilly and the Motherhood Perspective
  11. 3. Matricentric Feminism
  12. 4. Normative Motherhood
  13. 5. Coming into Being
  14. 6. The Twenty-First-Century Motherhood Movement
  15. 7. Empowered and Feminist Mothering
  16. 8. Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater
  17. 9. Towards a Literary Theory and Criticism of Matricritics
  18. 10. Maternal Regret
  19. 11. Pandemic Mothering
  20. 12. “Certainly Not an Equal-Opportunity Pandemic”
  21. 13. Feminist Perspectives on Young Mothers and Young Mothering
  22. 14. In Search of the Goddess
  23. 15. “Have Your Cake and Eat It Too”
  24. 16. Across the Divide
  25. 17. In Black and White
  26. 18. African American Mothering
  27. 19. “It Saved My Life”
  28. 20. Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context
  29. 21. “I Should Have Married Another Man”; “I Couldn’t Do What I Do Without Him”
  30. 22. Maternal Literatures in Text and Tradition
  31. 23. The Motherhood Memoir and the “New Momism”
  32. 24. Feminist Mothering as Maternal Practice
  33. 25. A Conversation About Maternal Thinking
  34. Deepest appreciation to Demeter’s monthly Donors