Andrea O'Reilly, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University. She is author, editor, or co-editor of more thana dozenbooks on motherhood, including Redefining Motherhood: Changing Identities& Patterns (1998), From Motherhood to Mothering (2004), Mother Matters: Mothering as Discourse& Practice (2004), Motherhood: Power& Oppression (2005), and Feminist Mothering (forthcoming, 2008). Over the last nine years she has received thirteen Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada grants including ten SSHRCC conference grants, one3-year SSHRCC journal gra...