Mothers, Mothering, and Covid-19

Dr. Andrea O’Reilly is Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University, founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press. She is co-editor/editor of twenty books including Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond and The Routledge Companion to Motherhood and author of three monographs including Matricentric Feminism: Theory Activism and Practice. She is twice the recipient of York University’s “Professor of the Year Award” for teaching excellence and is the 2019 recipient of the Status of Women and Equity Award of Distinction from OCUFA (Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations). She is mother of three adult children.Dr. Fiona Joy Green is a feminist mother and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg who believes in the power of revolutionary feminist motherwork. She’s interested in the agency of children and mothers, in gender socialization and gender identity, and in the ability of matroreform and feminist motherlines to contribute to feminist theorizing and praxis. She’s the sole author of Practicing Feminist Mothering (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011) and co-editor of three books addressing feminist parenting and maternal pedagogies published by Demeter Press.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionAndrea O’Reilly and Fiona Joy GreenI: Chapters“Academic Mothers and COVID-19”Lynn O’Brien Hallstein and sara hayden“Motherhood and Academia in Mexican universities: Juggling our path through the COVID-19 lockdown”Lidia Ivonne Blasquez Lilu B and Lucia Montes“Indigenous Mothers and COVID-19”Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Jaime Cidro“Smudging My Home and Family: An Anishinaabeg Mother’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”Renée E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bédard“Mothers and Agile Work During the COVID 19 Pandemic - Doubling Up on the Double Shift”Rebecca Bromwich“The skewed gendered burden of the pandemic on South Asian Mothers”Saba Karim Khan“Shades of Grey: A Black, Single Mother’s Reflection on Love, Caretaking, and COVID”Haile Eshe Cole“Delivering during a Pandemic”Rachel E. Silverman“Knowing that I had choice empowered me: Preparing for and Experiencing Birth During a Pandemic.”Dr. Alys Einion“‘A mother’s duty’ during two pandemics – Australian mothers in 1919 and 2020”Dr. Belinda Robson“‘The Burden of Care’: Exploring the Gendered Impact(s) of COVID-19 on Mothers’ Caring Labour”Gillian Anderson and Sylvie Lafrenière“Workplace and Social Justice for Mothers Who Work in the Time of Coronavirus”Jennifer L. Borda“Your “only” is my everything – mothers of children with disabilities navigate through Covid-19Kinga Pozniak“Mother’s perceptions of success and struggle during Covid-19 “Molly Wiant Cummins and Grace Ellen Brannon“I thought I was getting better at being a good mother… but then all that changed”:Mothering during a Pandemic”Aleksandra Staneva“Life in Lockdown: Single Mothering during the COVID-19 Pandemic”Punam Mehta“Motherhood, e-working and conciliation: a utopia in the time of Covid”Ana Lucía Hernández Cordero“Futures for Ghosts: Using traditional feminized skill, while adapting to the unprecedented, for a future unknown”Hillary Di Menna“Parenting Journeys: Together and Apart”Natasha SteerJen Vasic“The Invisible Frontline Workers: Narratives of Young Indian Mothers’ Experiences through the Pandemic”Dr. Ketoki Mazumdar“Digitally mediated motherhood during COVID-19”Kate Orton-Johnson.“A Single-parent, Multigenerational Family Testimony: Living under Covid-19 & other orders in Silicon Valley”Perlita R. Dicochea“Professional perceptions of women’s ways to deal with pregnancy and motherhood amidst the Brazilian COVID-19 pandemic chaos”Margareth Santos Zanchetta et. al.“The hill I chose to die on: a feminist autoethnographic account of mothering throughCOVID-19, unacknowledged mental illness and emotional abuse”Dr Lauren Hansen“Navigating the care deficit and mothering beyond monogamy in COVID-19”Stevie Lang Howson“The First “Successful” COVID-19 Birth in the World: Feminist Reflections on the Medical Model of Birth in an Epidemic”Holly Zwalf“Pandemic mothering, bilingualism, and family language policy: a discourse analysis of immigrant mothers’ narratives”Dr. Hakyoon Lee“What We Left Behind: Reflections on parenting Black children through a pandemic”Brooke Harris Garad“And then we went outside: A Black mothering lens on quarantine, health disparities and state violence”Zaje A. T. Harrell“Reflections on the everyday work of navigating COVID 19Elizabeth Brulé“Aging Mothers: Dependent Adult Children with Intellectual Disabilities During Covid-19 Pandemic”Rhonda Petrella“Planet COVID: living through a panic-demic” Autistic Parenting under Covid-19”PseudonymMothers and the Gig Economy of Dance”Susie Burpee“Navigating Family and Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What does Media say about Working Mothers in Qatar?”Ghadir Fakhri Al Jayyousi-Alsalim“Cross-cultural Mothering Work during Pandemic Times”María José“Mothers as front line workers and Covid-19”Andrea O’ReillyII. POETRY“20/20 Vision”Maya Bhave“For the Lockdown Babies”Gráinne Evans“smothered”“Era Fever”Victoria Bailey“Outside”Elsje Fourie“Women’s Witness”Cali PrinceIII. ART“caring”“vital line”“Dear Josefine”“Shut up!”“Net is working”Barbara Philipp“Pierro. Prayers can’t kill COVID19”Helen Sargeant“Thank you Heroes”Dara Herman Zierlein“Context Collapse”El Putnam“COVID19”Catherine Moeller“No room for family COVID19 fatigue”Tracey Farrington and Fiona Joy Green