The Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) is a Canadian scholarly research and advocacy group for mothering-motherhood.

Background

MIRCI identifies its mandate as:The central activities carried out by MIRCI are published scholarly journals and works, and holding international conferences. Regular motherhood Conferences hosted by MIRCI are held in Canada and have also been held in many other locations across the globe including Ireland, Italy, Greece, Barbados, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and New York City in the USA. A sister organisation, AMIRCI , also hosts regular conferences in Australia. MIRCI houses many published scholarly journals and works, most notably the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (JMI, formerly The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering), and houses the International Mothers Network, The Young Mothers Empowerment Project, and The Motherhood Studies Forum. MIRCI is partnered with independent feminist publishing press,

Demeter Press Demeter Press is a not-for-profit feminist academic publisher headquartered in Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2006 by Andrea O'Reilly, it focuses on the topic of motherhood and is partnered with the MIRCI, Motherhood Initiative for Research and Co ...

, which was also founded by

Andrea O'Reilly Andrea O'Reilly (born 1961) is a writer on women's issues and currently a Professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Career O'Reilly founded the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) at York Un ...

History

Founded in 1998 by

through

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and staf ...

, Toronto, MIRCI was initially called 'The Association for Research on Mothering' (ARM). In 2010, the name was changed to MIRCI. The Australian sister organisation, founded by Dr Marie Porter, was originally named ARM-A, and was also renamed to AMIRCI in 2010.

Publications

Most recent issues of the 'Journal of the Motherhood Initiative'

Downe, P., Boland, B., Wong, G., et al., 2018, 'Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Post-Partum', ''Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (MIRCI),'' Volume 9. Green, F., Weappa, J., Epstein, S., et al., 2018, 'Motherlines', ''Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (MIRCI),'' Volume 9.1. Downe, P., Gamber, C., O'Reilly, A., et al., 2017, 'Mothers and Mothering in Today's World', ''Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (MIRCI),'' Volume 8.1, 8.2 Jordan, N., Greenway, K., Epstein., et al., 2016, 'Maternal Subjectivities', ''Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (MIRCI),'' Volume 7. Byrd, D., O'Reilly, A., Mercer., et al., 2016, 'Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood in Literature', ''Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (MIRCI),'' Volume 7.1. Guignard, F., Esnard, T., Dobson, K., et al., 2015, 'Mothers in the Academe', ''Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (MIRCI),'' Volume 6.2. Peterson, E., Martin, B., Hill, N., et al., 2015, 'Communicating Motherhood/Mothers Communicating in Popular Culture and Social Media', ''Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (MIRCI),'' Volume 6.1.

Other notable publications

O'Reilly, A, 2004, Mother Outlaws: Theories and Practices of Empowered Mothering, Demeter Press, York University, UK.

References

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