Andrea O’Reilly

A day in the life of marginalizing “fringe groups” in Canada

by phdinparenting on March 2, 2010

Most days, I’m proud to be Canadian. Whether I’m talking about our health care system, our maternity and parental leave programs, feminist leaders, or other topics close to my heart, my country usually makes me proud (even if it isn’t perfect). Today, however, my heart sunk. I was hit with bad news and then slapped [...]

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Feminist Mothering (a book!)

by phdinparenting on November 9, 2008

Thanks to Blue Milk for alerting me to this great new book that has just been released. This is a topic of great interest to me, as I’m sure you’ve all seen in my posts on feminism and this book pulls together the experiences of different women in a series of essays on feminist mothering. [...]