Demeter Press: 85 books
Fresh Hell
Motherhood in Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This book isn’t about perfect moments with your infant. It doesn’t dispense sensible advice or proscribe schedules to manage the lawless days and nights of early maternity. Instead, this literary think piece, an Eat, Pray Love for the smarter mommy crowd, seesaws from disaster to delight, horror...
Not Exactly As Planned
A Memoir of Adoption, Secrets and Abiding Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Not Exactly As Planned is a captivating, deeply moving account of adoption and the unexpected challenges of raising a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. Linda Rosenbaum’s life takes a major turn when her son, adopted at birth, is diagnosed with irreversible brain damage. With love, hope and all...
Queering Motherhood
Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Queering Motherhood represents a unique and well-written collection of essays written by a diverse range of authors, including scholars, activists, and queer parents. The authors employ the “queering” framework effectively, raising intriguing examples and contexts in which mothering may and can...
by Marilyn Gear Pilling
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Marilyn Gear Pilling brilliantly displayed her competence in describing women in My Nose is a Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong (1996). Showing them “in all their nakedness ... the voice is neither sentimental nor fussy, the prose spare and fresh” (Quill & Quire). She continued her explorations of...
by Lissa M. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In 1789, Armande, a wet nurse who is known for the mystical qualities of her breast milk, goes missing. Céleste, a cunning servant girl who Armande once saved from shame and starvation, sets out to find her. A snuffbox found in the snow, the unexpected arrival of a gentleman and the discovery of...
Maternal Theory
Essential Readings
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of...
Natal Signs
Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting explores some of the ways in which reproductive experiences are taken up in the rich arena of cultural production. The chapters in this collection pose questions, unsettle assumptions, and generate broad imaginative spaces for...
Breastfeeding and Culture
Discourses and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
For myriad reasons, breastfeeding is a fraught issue among mothers in the U.S. and other industrialized nations, and breastfeeding advocacy in particular remains a source of contention for feminist scholars and activists. Breastfeeding raises many important concerns surrounding gendered embodiment,...
Motherhood and Single-Lone Parenting
A Twenty-First Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
The 21st century sustains one significant commonality with the decades of the preceding century. The majority of individuals parenting on their own and heading one-parent families continue to be mothers. Even so, current trends in globalization (economic, political, cultural) along with technological...
Placenta Wit
Mother Stories, Rituals, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Placenta Wit is an interdisciplinary anthology of stories, rituals, and research that explores mothers’ contemporary and traditional uses of the human afterbirth. Authors inspire, provoke and highlight diverse understandings of the placenta and its role in mothers’ creative life-giving. Through...
Muslim Mothering
Global Histories, Theories, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Muslim Mothering is an interdisciplinary volume, concentrating on the experiences of Muslim mothers, largely in the contemporary period. The volume is notable for the global range of its contributors and topics, indicative of the number of Muslim majority national contexts and large and diverse Muslim...
by Madeline Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Birth of the Cool, a compilation album by jazz great Miles Davis, was released in 1957, the year before I was born. That album defined “cool jazz”: elegant, distant, hip, and stylish. Davis and his eight co- musicians made it all look so easy. From the time I was very young, I was trying to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern...
“New Maternalisms”
Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable)
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable) explores the perceptions of those who engage in and/or research motherwork or the labour of caregiving, and how mothers view themselves in comparison to broader normative understandings of motherwork. Here, the anthology serves...