Care(ful) Relationships Between Mothers and the Caregivers They Hire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781772584660)

Katie Bodendorfer Garner, PhD focuses on motherhood, childcare, and labor equality. She has been the executive director of IAMAS since 2019 and is a valued member of CareForce, a small group of prestigious thought leaders on carework. Her (in-progress) book, The Illusion of Choice, incorporates interviews with nearly 100 U.S. women and addresses inequalities of work, childcare, and motherhood. Academic writing appears in Palgrave, Demeter Press, JMI, and MaMSIE. Katie has been consulted for or appeared in releases by Center for Public Integrity, Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, Nature, NPR, WGN Radio and numerous podcasts. You can find out more at https: //drkatiebgarner.com. Andrea O?Reilly, PhD, is full 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 thirty plus books including Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond (2020), Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic (2021), Maternal Theory, The 2nd Edition (2021), Monstrous Mothers; Troubling Tropes (2021, Maternal Regret: Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections (2022), Normative Motherhood: Representations, Regulations, and Reclamations (2023) and Coming into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism (2023). She is editor of the Encyclopedia on Motherhood (2010) and co editor of the Routledge Companion to Motherhood (2019). She is author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart (2004); Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering (2006); and Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, and Practice, The 2nd Edition (2021). 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 has received more than 1.5 million dollars in grant funding for her research projects including two current ones: ?Older Young Mothers in Canada? and ?Mothers and Returning to ?Normal?: The Impact of the Pandemic on Mothering and Families.