Demeter Press: 85 books
Essential Breakthroughs
Conversations about Men, Mothers and Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care. The authors creatively blend the philosophical and the personal to collectively argue that while gender is essential to our social and theoretical definitions of care,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, examining experiences, representations,...
by Kim Aubrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In What We Hold in Our Hands, a teen mom longs for a different kind of life, a divorced dad struggles to come to terms with his ex- wife’s involvement in their son’s life, a woman cares for a dying younger sister, and a granddaughter wonders about the man her grandmother killed. The ten stories...
Bad Mothers
Regulations, Representations, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
While the image or construct of the “good mother” has been the focus of many research projects, the “bad mother,” as a discursive construct, and also mothers who do “bad” things as complicated, agentic social actors, have been quite neglected, despite the prevalence of the image of the...
Patricia Hill Collins
Reconceiving Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Patricia Hill Collins has given new meaning to the institution of motherhood throughout her publishing career. Introducing scholars to new conceptions, such as, “othermothering” and “mothering of mind,” Collins through her creative and multifaceted analysis of the institution of motherhood,...
Interrogating Pregnancy Loss
Feminist Writings on Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently conceptualized events, this collection explores the connections between these three categories. How have feminist debates and strategies around reproductive choice invigorated the cultural conversation...
Mothers and Sons
Centering Mother Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Mothers and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge makes a case for the need to de-gender the framing and study of parental legacy. The actualization of an entire collection on this dyad foregrounding motherhood without particularizing the absence of fatherhood is in itself revolutionary. This assemblage...
Missing the Mark?
Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In the year 2000, United Nations world leaders set out eight targets, the UN Millennium Development Goals, for achieving improved standards of living at the micro level in poorer nations around the globe, by the year 2015. The papers in this collection present fine-detailed ethnographic studies of...
Telling Truths
Storying Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Telling Truths: Storying Motherhood is a collection of creative non-fiction essays. Through story, contributing authors explore how expectations collide with the complex realities we face as we mother. They illustrate how mothering is inextricably linked to the positions we occupy within our specific...
Stay-At-Home Mothers
Dialogues and Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
This book includes a remarkably diverse range of voices and perspectives on the under-researched topic of mothers electing to stay at home to care for their children or returning home after being in the paid workforce. As the first international collection of its kind, it explores with sensitivity...
What’s Cooking, Mom?
Narratives about Food and Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
What’s Cooking, Mom? offers original and inventive narratives, including auto-ethno- graphic discussions of representations, discourses and practices about and by mothers regarding food and families. These narratives discuss the multiple strategies through which mothers manage feeding themselves...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book considers Black Motherhood through multiple and global lenses to engage the reader in an expanded reflection and to prompt further discourse on the intersection of race and gender within the construct of motherhood among Black women. With an aim to extend traditional treatments of Black...
Performing Motherhood
Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Performing Motherhood explores relationships between performativity and the maternal. Highlighting mothers’ lived experiences, this collection examines mothers’ creativity and agency as they perform in everyday life: in mothering, in activism, and in the arts. Chapters contain theoretically grounded...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Mothering Mennonite marks the first scholarly attempt to incorporate religious groundings in interpretations of motherhood. The essays included here broaden our understanding of maternal identity as something not only constructed within the family and by society at large, but also influenced significantly...