Introduction Women continue to do a disproportionate amount of mothering throughout the world. This contradiction contributes to the subordination of women and is increasingly recognized in discourse regarding motherwork among the social sciences.
Adult educators link learning to change and transformation for individuals as well as for society.
Through artful inquiry that includes self inquiry, storytelling and semi structured interviews, women are invited to explore the transformative moments during the intensive work of mothering. While both the process and the products of knowledge creation and learning are explored, women s experiences are examined in the context of their positions within society, taking into consideration interlocking issues of gender, race and class. My goals are to present women s lived experiences in artful ways that evoke authentic and emotional responses in readers. This paper presents a research work in progress. At this point, I have noted that women s storytelling often centres around moral or ethical dilemmas that involve some level of challenge to oppressive social structures or to previously held notions of what mothering would be like.