Dr. Joanne Minaker is Associate Dean, Academic, in the Faculty of Arts and Science at MacEwan University. A sociologist, qualitative researcher, and ardent mother. Works include the book Youth, Crime and Society: Issues of Power and Justice (2009), co-authored with Bryan Hogeveen, Criminalized Mothers, Criminalized Mothering (2015), as well as numerous articles that call into question marginalizing processes that dehumanize groups. Deborah Byrd s Professor of English and Women’s & Gender Studies at Lafayette College, where she teaches women writers, 19th-century British poetry, and a community-based learning course on single motherhood. Her publications focus on young and low-income single mothers; on feminist, maternal, and community engagement pedagogies; and on a variety 19th and 20th-century writers. Andrea O’Reilly, PhD, is Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. O’Reilly is founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, and founder and publisher of Demeter Press. She editor/author of 21 books including Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, and Practice (2016).
