Feminist mothering critiques the sexist and patriarchal values that contemporary society upholds.
[6] One of the leading portals of mother studies is The m/other voices foundation, a non-profit organization in The Netherlands.
It emerged in 2014 from Deirdre M. Donoghue's research project (m)other voices: the maternal as an attitude, maternal thinking and the production of time and knowledge at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art.
The project's purpose was to initiate discourse and the doing of maternal theory within arts and other fields of cultural production and to reflect on the maternal figure as a thinker and a producer of knowledge.
More and more organized initiatives within academic communities are starting such as the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, a feminist scholarly and activist organization on mothering-motherhood based in Toronto, Canada.