Professor
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies - School of Gender, Sexuality and Women
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext. 60366
aoreilly@yorku.caKey Areas of Expertise
- Maternal well-being and health
- Feminism
- Women’s Studies
- Mothers in popular culture
- Gender issues
- Family and motherhood
- Empowered mothering
- Women’s writing, including novelist Toni Morrison
- International slutwalk movement
For more information go to
Faculty of LAPS Profile
The Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
Globe and Mail – Why the 1970s were the best time to be a mom
The National Post – Bringing baby to work: Kids in workplace spark debate
YFile - Demeter press boasts new website and upcoming book launch
BBC - Crop tops and ripped jeans spark Canadian school protests
Maclean's - How the ‘Nannygate’ outrage missed the point
Shoreline Beacon - Examining the 'good' mother
CBC News - Partners in parenting, not love: Singles pair up to raise a child
Awards
President’s University-Wide Teaching Award - 2009 and 1998
York University
Sarah Shorten Award - 2009
Canadian Association of University Teachers
Lillian Robinson Fellowship - 2008
The Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
Atkinson Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research - 2007
York University
Affiliations
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement
Founder and director
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative
Editor-Chief
Demeter Press: Feminist Publishing on Mothering, Reproduction, Sexuality and Family
Founder, publisher and author
Encyclopedia of Motherhood
Editor
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