Dr. Fiona Joy Green and Dr. Andrea O'Reilly publish first-ever collection on matricentric feminism

Tue. Oct. 1, 2024

Dr. Fiona Joy Green's co-edited collection, The Mother Wave: Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism, has just been published with Demeter Press.

Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers’ needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic on and for the empowerment of mothers and women. 

Matricentric feminism is based on the conviction that mothering is a verb, and understands that becoming and being a mother is not limited to biological mothers or cisgender women but rather to anyone who does the work of mothering as a central part of their life. The Mother Wave, the first-ever book on the topic, compellingly explores how mothers need a matricentric mode of feminism organized from and for their particular identity and work as mothers, and because mothers remain disempowered despite sixty years of feminism. The anthology makes visible the power of matricentric feminism as it is theorized, enacted, and represented to realize and achieve the subversive potential of mothers and their contributions to feminist theory and activism. Contributors share the impact and influence of matricentric feminism on families and children, culture, art/literature, education, public policy, social media, and workplace practices through personal reflections, scholarly essays, memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry and photography.

Visit the Demeter Press website for more information or to purchase the collection.