International remote conference on Matricentric Feminism

Join the Matricentric Feminism Conference on Thursday, March 19 to 21 running 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. feauturing keynote speaker and author Lucy Jones.

To register, email Tracy Carlyle at carlyletracey@gmail.com.

Matricentric feminism emphasizes that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman and holds that many of the problems mothers face – social, economic, political, cultural, psychological and so forth – are specific to mothers’ role and identity as mothers. It seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers’ needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic on and for the empowerment of women and mothers.

Indeed, motherhood is the unfinished business of feminism.

Mothers are oppressed under patriarchy as women and as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a matricentric mode of feminism organized from and for their particular identity and work as mothers.

Mother-centred feminism is needed because mothers – arguably more so than women in general – remain disempowered despite 60 years of feminism.

The conference is multi- and interdisciplinary with scholars from fields as diverse as women and gender studies, anthropology, health studies, law, children studies, nursing, religion, political science, English literature, visual art and psychology, alongside activists, writers, and artists who explore matricentric feminism and/or mothers, mothering.