FORTHCOMING TITLES
Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices
La maternité au Canada: Voix interdisciplinaires Edited by Shawna Geissler, Lynn Loutzenhiser, Jocelyne Praud and Leesa Streifler
Fall 2009
Disability and Mothering
Edited by Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and
Jen Cellio
Spring 2010
Giving Breast Milk
Edited by Rhonda Shaw and Alison Bartlett
Spring 2010
The M Word:
Real Mothers in Contemporary Art
Edited by Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein
Fall 2010
You Say You Want a Revolution: The 21st Century Motherhood Movement
Edited by Andrea O’Reilly
Fall 2010
The Palin Factor:
Political Mothers and Public Motherhood in the 21st Century
Edited by Andrea O'Reilly and Deirdre M. Condit
Fall 2010
Adoption and Mothering
Edited by Frances Latchford
Spring 2011
Latina/Chicana Mothering
Edited by Dorsia Smith Silva and Janine Santiago
Fall 2011
Queering Parenting
Edited by Susan Driver and Zoe Newman
Spring 2012
Living Feminism Through Mothering
Edited by Fiona J. Green
Spring 2012
Being a Mother Academic: Theory and Narrative edited by Andrea O’Reilly and Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
Spring 2012
Mothering and Hip Hop Culture
Edited By Maki Motapanyane and Shana Calixte
Fall 2012
Demeter Press is the newly launched publishing division of the Association for Research on Mothering. We are the first book publisher focused specifically on the topic of mothering/motherhood and are a peer-reviewed scholarly press. The press is named in honour of the Goddess Demeter, herstory’s most celebrated empowered and outraged mother.
All current and past Demeter Press titles are now available through Amazon.com.
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February 2009 Eds. Jessica Nathanson and Laura Camille Tuley |
September 2008 Edited by Amber E. Kinser |
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October 2007 White Ink: Edited by Rishma Dunlop Click here for a recent review by Jill Scott, Queen’s University. Click here to read a Prairie Fire Review of White Ink. |
May 2006 Rocking the Cradle: |
October 2006 Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Opression, Resistance and Rebirth |
May 2007 Maternal Theory: Edited by Andrea O'Reilly |
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Demeter was the Greek Goddess of agriculture and fertility who unleashed her power when her beloved daughter Peresphone was abducted and taken to the underworld by the God Hades. Overcome with rage and grief, Demeter withheld the coming of Spring leaving the chief God Zeus, who was now faced with the plight of the earth’s barrenness, with no choice but to demand that Hades return Peresphone to her mother. In her classic book Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich interprets the Demeter/Peresphone story as a compelling representation of every daughters’ “longing for a mother whose love for her and whose power were so great as to undo rape and bring her back from death,” signifying “every mother’s longing for the power of Demeter and the efficacy of her anger.” In patriarchal culture, where there are so few examples of empowered mothering, in both life and literature, Demeter’s triumphant resistance serves as model for the possibility—and power—of feminist mothering.
Click here to read more about Demeter Press (PDF).
We are the first book publisher focused specifically on the topic of motherhood/mothering and are a peer-reviewed scholarly press.. Demeter Press is currently accepting scholarly manuscripts for publication consideration for 2012/2013.
For more information, or to submit a manuscript, please contact:
Demeter Press c/o
Association for Research on Mothering
206T Founders, York University,
4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 x60366 FAX: (416) 736-5766
Email: arm@yorku.ca
