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.
Career O'Reilly founded the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) at York University in 1998 and ran it until it closed in 2010. Its disbandment led to the inception of a new organization, the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI). 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. 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".
She is also the author or editor of eighteen books on motherhood.
Selected works As author Reviews of Toni Morrison and Motherhood Review of Rocking the Cradle:
As editor
Review of Mother Matters
Reviews of Encyclopedia of Motherhood Review of Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences Personal life O’Reilly is the mother of feminist author Clementine Morrigan.
References
External links York University Profile Demeter Press