Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 29 results for “andrea o'reilly”
Skip side bar filters

  • Gone Feral

    Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity

    Edited by Casey Jean O'Reilly-Conlin, Andrea O'Reilly ...
    Challenging traditional norms: A feminist exploration of ferality and female identity.Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity delves into the concept of ferality, examining how women resist patriarchal expectations and redefine themselves. This collection of essays, poetry, and artwork explores the complexities of female identity, offering a provocative look at women who ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences - A Reader

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal, Adoptive, At-Home, Birth, Black, Disabled, East-Asian, Feminist, Immigrant/Refuge, Latina/Chicana, Poor/Low ... Read more

    $39.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes

    Edited by Andrea O'Reilly, Abigail L. Palko ...
    Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Matricentric Feminism

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—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' ... Read more

    $26.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mother Wave

    Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism

    Edited by Andrea O'Reilly, Fiona Joy Green ...
    Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers' needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic on and for the empowerment of women as mothers. Based on the conviction that mothering is a verb, it understands that becoming and being a mother is not limited to biological mothers or cisgender women but rather to anyone who does the ... Read more

    $36.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In (M)other Words

    Writings on Mothering and Motherhood, 2009-2024

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    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 ... Read more

    $41.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, Practice. The 2nd Edition

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of feminism centered on mothers. This second edition expands on matricentric feminism, positioning mothering as a verb to understand motherwork in a gender-neutral way while appreciating its gendered dimensions.Andrea O'Reilly argues that the category of mother is distinct from that of woman, addressing the unique challenges mothers face under patriarchy. This feminism ... Read more

    $28.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionizing Motherlines

    Edited by Victoria Bailey, Andrea O'Reilly, Fiona Joy Green ...
    Revolutionizing Motherlines reflects upon and troubles current and historical understandings of Naomi Ruth Lowinsky' s concept of the motherline that connects mothers to their female ancestors. Complicated histories of erasure and threads of hope are tied together with intellectually engaging and emotionally resonant dialogues about maternal lineage to illuminate previously silenced motherlines of ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toni Morrison and Motherhood

    A Politics of the Heart

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Mothering is a central issue for feminist theory, and motherhood is also a persistent presence in the work of Toni Morrison. Examining Morrison's novels ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Normative Motherhood:

    Regulations, Representations, and Reclamations

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    A central aim of motherhood studies is to examine and theorize normative motherhood. Where does it come from? What are its defining features and demands? How does it work as a regulatory discourse and practice across differences of age, class, race, ability, sexuality, and region? What is the impact of normative motherhood on women' s lives? What does an intersectional analysis of normative ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionizing Motherlines

    Edited by Dr. Fiona Joy Green, Dr. Victoria Bailey, Dr. Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Revolutionizing Motherlines reflects upon and troubles current and historical understandings of Naomi Ruth Lowinsky’s concept of the motherline that connects mothers to their female ancestors. Complicated histories of erasure and threads of hope are tied together with intellectually engaging and emotionally resonant dialogues about maternal lineage to illuminate previously silenced motherlines of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Coming into Being

    Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism

    Edited by Victoria Bailey, Andrea O'Reilly, Fiona Joy Green ...
    This collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be shaped by, and interconnected with, how mothers realize feminism and/or become feminists. Experiences of motherhood can involve unique discriminations and oppressions, as well as new challenges and possibilities. What may have been overlooked, tolerated, or perhaps even gone unnoticed before becoming a mother, can become overtly ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus