Dr. Andrea O?Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies (2006) and its subfield Maternal Theory (2007), and creator of the concept 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). With this collection O?Reilly continues the conversation on the meaning and nature of motherhood initiated by Adrienne Rich in Of...