Dr. Andrea O'Reilly, Museum of Motherhood Academic Committee Chair
Founder, Director of The Association for Research on Mothering
E-Mail: aoreilly@yorku.ca
Phone: 416-736-2100 x60366
Address: 726 Atkinson, York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3
Dr. Andrea O'Reilly is founder and director of The Association for Research on Mothering, (ARM). Founded in 1998, ARM is the first feminist research association on the topic of mothering-motherhood and has more than 500 members worldwide. As well, Dr. O'Reilly is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, the first, and still only, scholarly journal on motherhood and associate professor of Women's Studies, York
Univesity, Toronto, Canada. Both ARM and its journal are recognized worldwide as the leading research centre/journal on Motherhood. In 2005 she launched Demeter Press, the first feminist press on motherhood; Demeter Press has published four books and has another ten planned or in production. In 1991 she designed Canada's first university course on Motherhood. Lastly, she is founder and director of “Mother Outlaws,” a feminist mother group, which is now established in cities around the world.O'Reilly's achievements have attracted significant media attention; she has been interviewed widely on the topic of motherhood including appearances on “The Agenda,” “More to Life,” “Planet Parent,” “Canadian Living Television,” “Chatelaine Magazine,” “Sex TV,” “The Star,” “The National Post,” “The Globe and Mail,” and “CBC Radio.”
Andrea O'Reilly, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University is co-editor/editor of twelve books on Motherhood: Redefining Motherhood: Changing Identities and Patterns (Second Story Press, 1998), Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment and Transformation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), Mothers and Sons: Feminism, Masculinity and the Struggle to Raise our Sons (Routledge Press 2001), From Motherhood to Mothering: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born (SUNY, 2004), Mother Outlaws: Theories and Practices of Empowered Mothering (Women's Press, 2004), Mother Matters: Mothering as Discourse and Practice (ARM Press, 2004), Motherhood: Power and Oppression (Women's Press, 2005), You Can Get There From Here: 25 Years of Bridging Courses for Women at York University (School of Women's Studies, York University, 2006), Maternal Theory: Essential Readings (Demeter Press, 2007) and Feminist Mothering (forthcoming, SUNY 2008). Her forthcoming books include From Personal to Political: Towards a New Theory of Maternal Narrative. With Silvia Caporale-Bizzini. (In Press), Susquehanna University Press, 2009, Maternal Texts/Textual Mothers: Motherhood in 20th and 21st Century Women’s Literature. With Elizabeth Podnieks. (Forthcoming, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008) and Motherhood at the 21st Century: Policy, Experience, Identity, Agency. She is currently completing the 20th Anniversary of Sara Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking and writing a monograph on being a mother in the academe.
Recently, Andrea O’Reilly was invited to serve as General Editor for the first-ever Encyclopedia of Mothering. The three volume (700 entries) encyclopedia will be published by Sage Press, (2010).
O'Reilly is author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart, (SUNY, 2004) and Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering (Demeter Press, 2006).
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As you now doubt have heard ARM and the Motherhood Foundation have launched the Museum of Motherhood (MOM) Initiative.
We hope to "break ground" for the virtual museum by the end of the year. Plans for the Museum in Seneca Falls is also well underway. We are currently establishing the academic committee for the virtual/actual museum. The committee will be made up of approximately ten scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines. The mandate of the committee is develop and oversee the content of both museums. This fall, the committee will decide upon the first 1-2 exhibits for the virtual museum (such as history of motherhood, motherhood movement), and select the individual to curate this exhibit. We plan to have the first exhibit on the site by spring.
We are currently accepting applications to sit on this board. The board will require approximately 5-10 hours of meetings per month (email/conference call) over the next year and a meeting in Seneca Falls in the next year. The position is a two year term, with a possible renewal. We are seeking scholars from a wide range of disciplines such as history, literature, sociology and so on.
We ask that you submit your name or that of another ONLY if you are able to commit the above time to the project.
