Demeter Press is the first book publisher focused specifically on the topic of mothering / motherhood and is a peer-reviewed scholarly press. The press is named in honour of the Goddess Demeter, herstory’s most celebrated empowered and outraged mother.

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Demeter Press
140 Holland St. West,
PO 13022
Bradford ONT L3Z 2Y5

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May 2010 Edited by Shawna Geissler, Lynn Loutzenhiser, Jocelyne Praud and Leesa Streifler Click here to view the flyer and reviews.	August 2010 Edited by Rhonda Shaw and Alison Bartlett Click here to view the flyer and reviews. 20% Off All Orders Before October 1!

Fall 2009 Edited by Andrea O'Reilly Click here to view the flyer.	May 2009 Edited by May Friedman and Shana Calixte Click here to view the flyer and reviews.	May 2009 by Jane Satterfield Click here to view the flyer and reviews.

February 2009 Eds. Jessica Nathanson and Laura Camille Tuley Click here to view the flyer.	October 2008 by Mary Ruth Marotte Click here to view the flyer.	September 2008 Edited by Amber E. Kinser Click here to view the flyer. Reviews

October 2007 White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood Edited by Rishma Dunlop Click here to view the flyer. Click here for a recent review by Jill Scott, Queen’s University. Click here to read a Prairie Fire Review of White Ink. Reprinted online with generous permisson from reviewer, Heidi Greco, and Prairie Fire Review of Books.	May 2006 Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering by Andrea O'Reilly	October 2006 Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Opression, Resistance and Rebirth Edited by Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jeanette Corbiere Lavell	May 2007 Maternal Theory: Essential Readings Edited by Andrea O'Reilly Click here for reviews.
2004 Mother Matters: Motherhood as Discourse and Practice Edited by Andrea O'Reilly Click here for reviews.

The Myth of Demeter and Persephone

Demeter was the Greek goddess of agriculture and fertility who unleashed her power when her beloved daughter Persephone 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 Persephone to her mother. In her classic book Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich interprets the Demeter/Persephone story as a compelling representation of every daughter’s “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.

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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.

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