Feminist Mothering by Andrea Oreilly

Feminist Mothering by Andrea Oreilly

Feminist Mothering goes beyond critiques of patriarchal motherhood to locate and investigate feminist maternal practices as sites for women's empowerment and social change. The contributors see "feminist mothering" as practices of mothering that seek to challenge and change the norms of patriarchal motherhood that are limiting and oppressive to women. For many women, practicing feminist mothering offers a way to disrupt the transmission of sexist and patriarchal values from generation to generation. Contributors explore the ways in which women integrate activism, paid employment, nonsexist childrearing practices, and non-child-centered interests in their lives—and other caregivers into their children's lives—in order to challenge existing societal inequality and create new egalitarian possibilities for women, men, and families.

Andrea O'Reilly is associate professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University and the editor or coeditor of more than fourteen books on motherhood. She is the author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart and Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering. She is also the founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, formerly the Association for Research on Mothering and the founder and editor in chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, formerly the Journal of the Association for Research and Mothering.

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ISBN 13	9780791475584
ISBN 10	0791475581
Title	Feminist Mothering
Author	Andrea Oreilly
Series	Suny Series In Feminist Criticism And Theory
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2008-10-09
Number of pages	296
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