Andrea O'Reilly

Who is Andrea O'Reilly?

Andrea O'Reilly Ph.D. is a writer on women's issues and currently a Professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author and editor of eighteen books on motherhood.

O'Reilly founded the Association for Research on Mothering at York University, that evolved into the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement in 2010. She is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, now the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. In 2006, as director of ARM, she founded Demeter Press, the first feminist press on motherhood. As well, she is founder of the feminist mothers group "Mother Outlaws".