Feminist motherhood.. The Book

Looky loo! Andrea O’Reilly of the Association of Research on Mothering has put out a book – Feminist Mothering.

Feminist Mothering goes beyond critiques of patriarchal motherhood to locate and investigate feminist maternal practices as sites for women’s empowerment and social change. The contributors see “feminist mothering” as practices of mothering that seek to challenge and change the norms of patriarchal motherhood that are limiting and oppressive to women. For many women, practicing feminist mothering offers a way to disrupt the transmission of sexist and patriarchal values from generation to generation. Contributors explore the ways in which women integrate activism, paid employment, nonsexist childrearing practices, and non-child-centered interests in their lives—and other caregivers into their childrens’ lives—in order to challenge existing societal inequality and create new egalitarian possibilities for women, men, and families.

The table of contents really whets your appetite with essays running from parenting in the third wave of feminism, to African-American mothers, to maternal activism. More info, including ordering the book from here.