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.
O'Reilly founded the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) at York University in 1998 and ran it until it closed in 2010.
[1] Its disbandment led to the inception of a new organization, the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI).
[2] She is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, now the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.
[3] She is also the author and editor of eighteen books on motherhood.