About the Author

Lisa Raith, PhD, BSc (Hons 1), BA, divides her time between teaching Psychology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, and creating hand-built pottery. She has presented findings, and published from her doctoral examination of first-time mothers’ transitions to motherhood (see Narratives about Work from Early Mothering Talk in Mother-Texts: Narratives and Counter Narratives, 2010). Lisa is the current President of the Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (AMIRCI).Jenny Jones, PhD, BA (Hons 1), is the Treasurer of the Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. Her doctoral thesis, which was awarded a Queensland University of Technology Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, explored the living realities of mothers with young adult-children through the dual lenses of matricentric feminism and applied ethics. Jenny works as a Clinical Ethicist in a large tertiary hospital in Brisbane, Australia.Marie Porter, PhD, BA (Hons 1), is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of English, Media Studies and Art at the University of Queensland. She was a founding member, and President, of ARM-A, which is now the Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (AMIRCI). Marie is the author of Transformative Power in Motherwork: A Study of Mothering in the 1950s and 1960s (2008), and has co-edited three other books.