25th Anniversary Issue on Mothering and Motherhood

Andrea O’Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of motherhood studies (2006) and its subfield maternal theory (2007) and the creator of matricentric feminism, a feminism for and about mothers (2016) and matricritics, a literary theory and practice for reading mother-focussed texts (2021). She is a full professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University, founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press. She is the coeditor, editor, and author of thirty-five plus books on many motherhood topics. Her most recent titles include Care(ful) Relationships between Mothers and the Caregivers They Hire, The Mother Wave: Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism and The Missing Mother, In (M)otherwords; Writings on Mothering and Motherhood, 2009–2024 (all published in 2024) along with Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity (2025). She has published fifteen chapters with several more planned on mother-centred novels/memoirs that will be published in the monograph Matricritics as Literary Theory and Criticism: Reading the Maternal in Post-2010 Women’s Narratives.