Demeter Press: 85 books
Borderlands and Crossroads
Writing the Motherland
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Motherhood does not just originate in the body, but in the world—a place, a region, a country or nation, a landscape, a language, a culture. Mothers are, as novelist Rachel Cusk once observed, “the countries we come from.” This unique literary anthology features thirty-five poems and twenty-three...
Counting on Marilyn Waring
New Advances in Feminist Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
This edited volume maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring's 1988 groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, If Women Counted. It features theoretical, practical and policy oriented contributions,...
Counting on Marilyn Waring
New Advances in Feminist Economics Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
This second edition, which includes an epilogue by Marilyn Waring, maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring’s 1988 groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, If Women Counted. It features theoretical,...
Angels on Earth
Mothering, Religion, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This collection brings together scholarly and creative pieces that reveal how the intellectual, emotional, and physical work of mothering is informed by women’s religiosities and spiritualities. Its contributors examine contemporary and historical perspectives on religious and spiritual mothering...
Listening to the Beat of Our Drum
Indigenous Parenting in a Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Listening to the Beat of Our Drum: Indigenous Parenting in a Contemporary Society is a collection of stories, inspired by a wealth of experiences across space and time from a kokum, an auntie, two-spirit parents, a Metis mother, a Tlinglit/Anishnabe Métis mother and an allied feminist mother. This...
ĀZĀDĪ
Sexual Politics and Postcolonial Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
In December of 2012 in Delhi, India a woman was gang raped, tortured, and inflicted with such bodily violence that she died as a result of the injuries. The case caused massive public protests in Delhi and throughout the Indian subcontinent. These large scale public mobilizations lead to attempts...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Neoliberal policies and austerity measures have unequivocally altered the landscape of women’s lives globally. The most detrimental effect has been on mothers as they are faced with increasing responsibility and decreasing resources. Despite mothers being the primary producers, consumers, and reproducers...
Mothers and Food
Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
From multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the roles mothers play in the producing, purchasing, preparing and serving of food to their own families and to their communities in a variety of contexts. By examining cultural representations of the relationships between feeding and parenting...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Even though in most nations women are at least almost half of the population, in very few countries do they occupy a similar space in the formal institutions of political power. They are said to lack a key element for a successful career in public life: time. From this perspective, no one is worse...
Texas Girl
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
At twenty-seven years old, Robin Silbergleid decided to become a single mother. Not as a backup or Plan B, but as first choice. In her memoir Texas Girl, she raises fundamental questions about the nature of family and maternity at the turn of the twenty-first century. At a moment when SMCs grace the...
Mothering and Psychoanalysis
Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
“The collection of 23 essays provides an exciting snapshot of contemporary theorising on the maternal within psychoanalytic and social theory. The introduction serves as an excellent overview of this interdisciplinary field and its importance both to motherhood studies and broader feminist thinking....
Intensive Mothering
The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays’ landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays’ concept of “intensive mothering” as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays’ original work, she spoke of...
After the Happily Ever After
Empowering Women and Mothers in Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book is about the two-tiered system and invisible imbalance that operates within the framework of the family. It is about the fantasy of the “happily-ever- after,” which the wedding industry promotes and Western society reinforces. Why are we hanging onto this faux happiness at the expense...
Looking for Ashley
e-reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The 2007 death by self-induced strangulation in prison of nineteen year old inmate Ashley Smith drew a great deal of public attention. The case gave rise to a shocking verdict of homicide in the 2013 inquest into the cause of her death. In this book, I inquire into questions about of what social problem...