Mothers and mothering have been a longtime focus of research and study in various academic disciplines, and common topics of interest in mainstream press and popular culture, yet the experiences of mothers and mothering in the area of sport have been less explored. This innovative, interdisciplinary collection provides a space for exploration of the complex dimensions of intersections between mothers, mothering, and sport, as athletes, players, participants, parents and discursive figures. Topics discussed are wide-ranging, from motherwork in sport, mothers as athletes, the athlete mother in sports, representations and expectations of motherhood and health, legal regulation of sports and parenting, as well as sexuality and gender in sports and gaming.

Judy E. Battaglia is a Clinical Professor of Communication Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where she teaches classes in Rhetorical Methodology and Criticism, Gender Communication, Sports Communication and Theatre. She is also a primary Faculty Advisor. Her research interests include but are not limited to performance theory, post-structuralist analysis, feminist theory, close-textual analysis, pop culture, psychoanalysis and cultural studies and critical biography. She has published several academic pieces on motherhood.

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Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is a Ph.D. student (ABD) at Carleton University in the Faculty of Law and Legal Studies. She has a B.A. (Hon.) in social/ cultural anthropology from the University of Calgary, an LL.B. and an LL.M. from Queen’s and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati. Her Ph.D. research has theoretical foundations in feminist discourse analysis. Called to the Bar of Ontario in 2003, Rebecca has previously researched and published in a variety of areas, including feminist research about motherhood, youth criminal justice law, law practice management and equality issues relating to women and members of other historically marginalized groups in the legal profession. She is a PartTime Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and a staff lawyer, legislation and law reform with the Canadian Bar Association and has four amazing children.

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Pamela Morgan Redela is a mother of two, a wife, and friend to many feminist co-conspirators. She holds a B.A., M.A., and PhD in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture and teaches in the Women’s Studies Department of California State University, San Marcos. Her research focuses gender roles and feminist activism, Ecofeminism, and intersectional feminist analysis of women's issues globally. Her writings have been published in Ms. Magazine (Winter, 2011) and the Demeter Press anthologies Feminist Parenting (2016) and Stay-at-home Mothers: Dialogues and Debates (2014).

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