Andrea O'Reilly

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Andrea O'Reilly (born 1961) is a writer on women's issues and currently a Professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. O'Reilly is the mother of writer Clementine Morrigan. [1] Morrigan has written extensively about experiencing childhood sexual abuse in her family of origin, and in 2024 O'Reilly threatened to sue Morrigan for writing publicly about this. [2] On August 18, 2025, Morrigan publicly named O'Reilly as her mother for the first time. [3]

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Career

O'Reilly founded the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) at York University in 1998 and ran it until it closed in 2010. [4] Its disbandment led to the inception of a new organization, the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI). [5] 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. [5] 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". [6]

She is also the author and editor of eighteen books on motherhood. [7]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ https://substack.com/home/post/p-171310339
  2. ↑ https://substack.com/home/post/p-171310339
  3. ↑ https://substack.com/home/post/p-171310339
  4. ↑ "Motherhood association to close". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  5. 1 2 Epp Buller, Rachel (June 4, 2014). "Andrea O'Reilly: Motherhood is NOT a Liability". LiteraryMama.com. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Andrea O'Reilly". us.sagepub.com. SAGE Publications Inc. 9 May 2024.
  7. ↑ Lindsay, Sandy (June 30, 2018). "Professor Andrea O'Reilly speaks on motherhood yesterday and today". Saugeen Times.
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