Demeter Press: 85 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which...
Mothering in Marginalized Contexts
Narratives of Women Who Mother in and through Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This book provides a rare and in-depth examination of the narratives, experiences, and lived realities of abused mothers—a group of women who, despite being the victims, are often criticized, vilified, and stigmatized for failing to meet dominant ideologies of what a “good mother” is/should...
This Is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like
Perspectives on the SlutWalk Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In April 2011, a team of five people put together Slutwalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In the name of campus “safety”, Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised...
Mothers of the Nations
Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The voices of Indigenous women world-wide have long been silenced by colonial oppression and institutions of patriarchal dominance. Recent generations of powerful Indigenous women have begun speaking out so that their positions of respect within their families and communities might be reclaimed. The...
Mothering in East Asian Communities
Politics and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
In Mothering in East Asian Communities, Duncan and Wong seamlessly rupture a homogenous identity category—that of the “tiger mom.” The editors invoke the works of diverse contributors who critically challenge essentialized identity categories and racialized and sexualized experiences of women...
Chasing Rainbows
Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may feel the desire for feminist parenting whilst...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes “good motherhood” grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized—perhaps...
Disabled Mothers
Stories and Scholarship by and about Mothers with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S., and Australia explores and analyzes issues of parenting by mothers with a variety of physical and mental disabilities. The book delves into pregnancy, birth, adoption, child custody, discrimination, and disability politics....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Love, hope, and impossible decisions Parenting brings countless hopes and worries. But when external factors create fear and cast a shadow long and deep across motherhood, what happens to the act of mothering? Through personal and academic essays and poetry from Canada, the United States and Palestine,...
Matricentric Feminism
Theory, Activism, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—are specific to women’s role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Missing, dead, disappeared, or otherwise absent mothers haunt us and the stories we tell ourselves. Our literature, from fairytales like Cinderella and The Little Mermaid to popular narratives like Cheryl Strayed’s recent book Wild, is peopled with motherless children. The absent mother, whether...
Doulas and Intimate Labour
Boundaries, Bodies, and Birth
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational...
On Mothering Multiples
Complexities and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
There has been an increase of twin births and higher order multiple birth babies born in Canada and around the world in the past few decades. On Mothering Multiples: Complexities and Possibilities seeks to (re)explore, (re)present, and make meaning of the process of conception, pregnancy, childbirth,...
Forever Loved
Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame. In this ground-breaking new volume, as part of their larger efforts to draw attention to the shockingly high rates of violence against our sisters, Jennifer Brant and D....