Andrea O’Reilly, PhD, is Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality
and Women’s Studies at York University and is founder and
director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community
Involvement, founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the
Motherhood Initiative and founder and editor of Demeter Press,
the first feminist press on motherhood. She is editor and author
of 19 books on motherhood including most recently 21st Century
Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency (2010);
The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out On
Why We Need to Change The World and How To Do It (2011);
Academic Motherhood in a Post Second Wave Context: Challenges,
Strategies, Possibilities (2012); and What do Mothers Need?:
Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak out Maternal Empowerment
for the 21st Century (2012). She is editor of the first encyclopedia
on Motherhood (2010). In 2010 she was the recipient
of the CAUT Sarah Shorten Award for outstanding achievements
in the promotion of the advancement of women in Canadian universities
and colleges. She is twice the recipient (1998, 2009) of
York University’s “Professor of the Year Award” for teaching excellence.
She is the proud mama of three fabulous and feminist
adult children.