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The Museum has hundreds of books, journals, CDs, videos, and research material in its collection. These books are available to peruse in the Andrea O’Reilly Reading Room. We accept donations of antique, new, or noteworthy books about mothers, mothering, motherhood, fatherhood, feminism, reproductive identity, and family. Financial and/or book donations can be sent to 538 28th St. N. St. Pete, FL 33713 or please call our hotline: 877.711.MOMS (6667). We will be happy to accept your contribution to our library! Visits to the MOM Art Annex Library can be pre-arranged by appt. only.
Current Library List – MOM Art Annex – PDF Download
A Sociology Made By Women
Womb Room
Second Wave Freedom
Open Access:
Reproductive Policy
in the 21st Century by Hannah Zagel.
Open Access:
Improving the maternity experience
for Black, African, Caribbean and mixed-Black family systems.
Open Access:
Journal of Mother Studies
(JourMS) as part of the International MoM Conference annually.
Music of Motherhood: History, Healing, and Activism
. Mothering and music are complex and universal events, the structure and function of each show remarkable variability across social domains and different cultures. Although mother studies and studies in music are each recognized as important areas of research, the blending of the two topics is a recent innovation. The chapters in this collection bring together artists and scholars in conversations about the multiple profound relationships that exist between music and mothering. The discussions are varied and exciting. Several of the chapters revolve around the challenges of mothering partnered with a musical career; others look at the affordances that music offers to mothers and children; and some of the chapters examine the ways in which music inspires social and political change, as well as acknowledging the rise of the mom rock phenomenon.
Music of Motherhood Manuscript
MoM- The Origin Story
by remote student intern Domi Pila (2025). This creative and mythological story of how MoM came to be is an artistic expression by Domi Pila, a recent graduate looking to gain experience in museums and heritage. She has a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Illustration.
With experiences interning at the London-based Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, which researches refugee and immigrant art in Britain, developed my interest in how museums can explore history, visual art, and contribute to wider conversations in the cultural and political spheres. Domi’s interest in history, art, storytelling and mythology resulted in this original creative project with additional text provided by the Museum of Motherhood.
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Coming Soon – A Full List of Books That Feature MoM. . .
The Mother Wave
, the first-ever book on the topic, compellingly explores how mothers need a matricentric mode of feminism organized from and for their particular identity and work as mothers, and because mothers remain disempowered despite sixty years of feminism. The anthology makes visible the power of matricentric feminism as it is theorized, enacted, and represented to realize and achieve the subversive potential of mothers and their contributions to feminist theory and activism. Contributors share the impact and influence of matricentric feminism on families and children, culture, art/literature, education, public policy, social media, and workplace practices through personal reflections, scholarly essays, memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, and photography. The mother wave of matricentric feminism invites conversations with others and offers a praxis of feminism that aims to coexist, overlap, and intersect with others with a chapter by museum founder, Martha Joy Rose
(2024)
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Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums
is a collection of the greatest and most beloved museums of North America, illustrated and explored through fun and fascinating anecdotes. Curated by Bob Eckstein, author of the
New York Times
bestseller
Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores
, this delightful twist on an art history book shows these institutes in a way not seen before, illustrated in a lush and idealized style.
The 75+ museums featured include the biggest and boldest names (MoMA, the Whitney) and the more offbeat (Museum of Bad Art, the Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Museum of Motherhood). They span the US, Canada, and Mexico and include those specializing in art, natural history, academia and science, and more. The 155 original pieces of artwork illustrate a story about the museum or showcase a particular work of art in its collection.
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Josh Ginsberg, Where can you join in a pirate parade, see live mermaids and catch a flamenco dance performance at the oldest and largest Spanish restaurant in America? Where can you wander through secret gardens, listen to bagpipe music, take a class in fire spinning, and sample a seemingly endless variety of local craft beers, all on the same day? The answer, of course, is Tampa Bay. Secret Tampa Bay: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure provides a deeper dive into the local culture, history, art and one-of-a-kind attractions as alternatives to the usual beaches and theme parks. Author Joshua Ginsberg as he explores Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater and the surrounding areas in search of hidden history, strange monuments, museums (including the Museum of Motherhood), oddities, antiques and the very best Cuban sandwich. From gangsters to gators to ghost stories, it s sure to be a memorable experience.
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In the last decade the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable.
The first ever on the topic, this
Encyclopedia of Motherhood
helps to both demarcate motherhood as a scholarly field and an academic discipline and to direct its future development. With more than 700 entries, these three volumes provide information on the central terms, concepts, topics, issues, themes, debates, theories, and texts of this new discipline. Further, the encyclopedia examines the topic of motherhood in various contexts such as history and geography and by academic discipline. Encyclopedia of Motherhood (2011)
How does feminism relate to motherhood, how has it changed over time, and what does the future of motherhood and feminism look like?  Amber E. Kinser, PhD, tackles in this latest addition to the Seal Studies Series in the book
Motherhood and Feminism
This text examines the role of feminism within motherhood—a topic that has garnered a lot of attention lately as society shifts to adapt to new definitions of these roles—and offers insight into the core questions of motherhood: what it means to be a good mother, what role mothers play in the family and in society, and how motherhood has been redefined throughout time.
Kinser also speculates on the future directions of feminism—focusing on the expansion of contemporary mother activism that has occurred in the last 15 years, and emphasizing the need for that expansion to continue—and examines how the changing world of motherhood fits into feminist activism
(2010)
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