A Virtual Book Club
With Motherhood Scholar Dr. Andrea O’Reilly, Ph.D.
Join us for this Inagural Spring Virtual Book Club!
Mothers, Mothering, and Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Explore how concepts of good/normative motherhood are challenged in literature; how mother protagonists unmask motherhood to authentically reveal the truths of mothering; how maternal narratives provide models for resistance and empowerment.
In our inaugural Spring book club we will be reading two novels on “Mothers Who Leave” -
First Book Club: Wednesday May 15, 7 to 9 pm EST
The Shame (2020) by Makenna Goodman
Second Book Club: Wednesday June 12, 7 to 9 pm EST
When I Ran Away (2021) by Ilona Bannister
*Please purchase books from your bookstore or borrow from your local library.
Cost: $150 for both Book Clubs
Come listen and learn with Motherhood Scholar Andrea O’Reilly, Ph.D.
Dr. Andrea O’Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies (2006) and its subfield Maternal Theory (2007), and creator 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). She is 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 author and co-editor/editor of thirty-five plus books on motherhood. She is currently completing a monograph on Motherhood and Mothering in Post 2010 Women’s Fiction/Memoir.
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Welcome to our Inaugural
Virtual Spring Book Club
with Motherhood Scholar Andrea O’Reilly, Ph.D.