Price: $38.95
Page Count: 292
Publication Date: April 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77258-376-2
“Andrea O’Reilly coined the term ‘motherhood studies.’ In Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, and Practice, she is now moving motherhood studies to the next stage by first defining ‘matricentric feminism’ — feminism that puts motherhood at its center — then detailing how matricentric feminism can and should be enacted in theory, activism, and practice. In doing so, O’Reilly has written a groundbreaking, even field-defining book, which is now a must-read book for anyone interested in understanding both the past and future of motherhood studies and a mother-centered feminism.”
—Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, College of General Studies, Boston University
Introduction 11
Andrea O’Reilly
SECTION ONE 15
Chapter 1 Introduction from Of Woman Born 17
Adrienne Rich
Chapter 2 Anger and Tenderness 23
Adrienne Rich
Chapter 3 Early Psychological Development: Psychoanalysis 39
and the Sociology of Gender
Nancy Chodorow
Chapter 4 In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens 61
Alice Walker
Chapter 5 Maternal Thinking 69
Sara Ruddick
Chapter 6 Revolutionary Parenting 87
bell hooks
Chapter 7 Homeplace: A Site of Resistance 99
bell hooks
Chapter 8 Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response 107
Audre Lorde
Chapter 9 The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters 113
Baba Copper
Chapter 10 It’s Only Natural 121
Valerie Walkerdine and Helen Lucey
Chapter 11 Unspeakable Plots 135
Marianne Hirsch
Chapter 12 The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture 151
and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships
Patricia Hill Collins
Chapter 13 Shifting the Center: Race, Class and Feminist 167
Theorizing About Motherhood
Patricia Hill Collins
Chapter 14 The Myths of Motherhood 187
Shari L. Thurer
Chapter 15 Beyond Mothers and Fathers: Ideology in a 201
Patriarchal Society
Barbara Katz Rothman
Chapter 16 Why Can’t a Mother Be More Like a Businessman? 219
Sharon Hays
Chapter 17 A Sketch in Progress: Introducing the Mother 243
Without Child
Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Chapter 18 Faking Motherhood: The Mask Revealed 273
Susan Maushart
Chapter 19 Mothering and Feminism: Essential Mothering 295
and the Dilemma of Difference
Patrice DiQuinzio
Chapter 20 The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study 309
of Fantasy and Reality
Jessica Benjamin
Chapter 21 Don’t Blame Mother: Then and Now 327
Paula J. Caplan
Chapter 22 The New Momism 337
Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels
Chapter 23 The “Problem” of Maternal Desire: Essential Mothering 361
and the Dilemma of Difference
Daphne de Marneffe
Chapter 24 The Motherhood Religion 377
Judith Warner
Chapter 25 Domestic Intellectuals: Freedom and the Single Mom 399
Jane Juffer
MATERNAL THEORY: ESSENTIAL READINGS
Chapter 26 High Risk: Who a Mother Should Be 429
Ariel Gore
Chapter 27 Resisting, But Not Too Much: Interrogating the 435
Paradox of Natural Mothering
Chris Bobel
Chapter 28 Con el Palote en Una Mano y el Libro en la Otra 445
Larissa Mercado-López
Section One Copyright Acknowledgements 451
SECTION TWO 455
Chapter 29 Matricentric Feminism: A Feminism for Mothers 457
Andrea O’Reilly
Chapter 30 Normative Motherhood 477
Andrea O’Reilly
Chapter 31 Maternal Subjectivities 493
Alison Stone
Chapter 32 The Category of the Postmaternal in Contemporary 505
Maternal Theory
Julie Stephens
Chapter 33 The New Sexual Contract: One Step Forward and 517
Two Steps Back
Petra Bueskens
Chapter 34 Detangling Wifehood and Motherhood 539
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
Chapter 35 Maternal Ambivalence 555
Sarah LaChance Adams
Chapter 36 Maternal Regret 567
Andrea O’Reilly
Chapter 37 Monstrous Mothers 579
Abigail L. Palko
Chapter 38 Feminist Fathering: Why It Should Matter to All 593
Who Mother
Nicole L. Willey and Dan Friedman
Chapter 39 Empowered and Feminist Mothering 607
Andrea O’Reilly
Chapter 40 Maternal Activism 629
Danielle Poe
Chapter 41 The Motherline 643
Fiona Joy Green
Chapter 42 Reconceiving Young Motherhood 663
Sarah Bekaert
Chapter 43 Disabled Mothers 675
Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor
Chapter 44 Reclaiming Black Motherhood: Centering Maternal 689
Activism on Birth and Breastfeeding Justice
Kimberly Seals Allers
Chapter 45 Indigenous Mothering: New Insights on Giving Life 697
to the People
Jennifer Brant and Kim Anderson
Chapter 46 The Migrant Maternal: Theory and Practice 719
Anna Kuroczycka Schultes and Helen Vallianatos
Chapter 47 Cosmopolitan Maternalisms 733
Bittiandra Chand Somaiah
Chapter 48 Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, 745
Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First-Century Iowa
Lina-Maria Murillo and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Chapter 49 Mothering in a Neoliberal World 763
Melinda Vandenbeld Giles
Chapter 50 Queer Possibilities: Unnatural Mothers and Other 783 Aberrations
Shelley M. Park
Chapter 51 Forging Crossroads: The Possibilities and Complexities 795
of Parenting Outside the Gender Binary
Olivia Fischer
Chapter 52 Trans Parenting 807
Damien W. Riggs, Sally Hines, Ruth Pearce, Carla A. Pfeffer,
and Francis Ray White
Chapter 53 Understanding and Recognizing Voluntary 817
Non-Motherhood
Julie Rodgers
