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.

Demeter Press is the publishing arm of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI). Click here to find out more about MIRCI.

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Please Note: Shipments to the US can take up to 2 weeks and overseas 4 to 6 weeks.

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Spring 2012 Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies and Possibilities edited by Lynn O’Brien Hallstein and Andrea O’Reilly Order Now 20% Pre Order Discount!

 

Spring 2012 Mother-Talk Conversations with Mothers of Lesbian Daughters and FTM Transgender Children by Sarah F. Pearlman Click here to read the flyer and reviews. Order Now 20% Pre Order Discount!	December 2011 Anthropology of Mothering edited by Michelle Walks and Naomi McPherson Click here to read the flyer and reviews. Order Now	November 2011 Through the Maze of Motherhood: Empowered Mothers Speak by Erika Horwitz Click here to view the flyer and reviews. Order Now

October 2011 Latina/Chicana Mothering Edited by Dorsia Smith Silva Click here to view the flyer and reviews.	October 2011 Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside of the Classroom edited by Deborah Byrd and Fiona J. Green Click here to view the flyer and reviews.	Spring 2011 The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art Edited by Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein Click here to view the flyer and reviews.

Spring 2011 The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to do it Edited by Andrea O'Reilly Click here to view the flyer and reviews.	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.

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 Click here to view the flyer.	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 Click here to view the flyer.	May 2007 Maternal Theory: Essential Readings Edited by Andrea O'Reilly Click here to view the flyer and reviews.
2004 Mother Matters: Motherhood as Discourse and Practice Edited by Andrea O'Reilly Click here for the flyer. Other books: Teaching Motherhood: A Collection of Post-Secondary Courses on Mothering/Motherhood

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.

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
Email: info@demeterpress.org