CALLS FOR PAPERS
FOR DEMETER PRESS
PUBLICATIONS
Criminalized Mothers: Criminalizing Motherhood
Co-editors: Joanne Minaker
and Bryan Hogeveen
Deadline for Abstracts:
June 1, 2012
Performing Motherhood
Co-editors: Amber Kinser,
Kryn Freehling-Burton and
Terri Hawkes
Deadline for Abstracts:
June 15, 2012

Moms Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness: Oppression and Resistance
edited by Gina Wong
Spring 2012
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Adoption and Mothering
Edited by Frances Latchford
Spring 2012
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Edited By Maki Motapanyane
Spring 2012
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Polluting Mama: an ecofeminist cultural memoir
by Heidi J. Hutner
Fall 2012
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Incarcerated Mothers
edited by Gordana Eljdupovic and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich
Fall 2012
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South Asian Mothering
edited by Jasjit Kaur Sangha
and Tahira Gonsalves
Fall 2012
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What Do Moms Need?
Motherhood Activists and Scholars Speak Out on Maternal
Empowerment for the 21st Century
edited by Andrea O'Reilly
Fall 2012
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Mothers, Daughters & Untamed Dragons
by Aysan Sev'er
Fall 2012

Mennonite Mothering
edited by Rachel Epp Buller and Kerry Fast
Spring 2013

Muslim Mothering
edited by Dana Olwan
Spring 2013
Mothering Adult Children
edited by Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard
Spring 2013

Mothering and Literacies
edited by Amanda Richey
Spring 2013

Mothering and Psychoanalysis
edited by Petra Büskens
Spring 2013
Laboring On: Testimony, Theory & Transgressions of Black Mothering in Academia edited by Sekile Nzinga-Johnson and Karen Craddock
Spring 2013

Black Motherhoods
edited by Karen T. Craddock, Nicole Banton and Saundra Murray Nettles
Fall 2013

Queering Maternity and Motherhood: Narrative & Theoretical Perspectives on Queer Conception, Birth and Parenting
edited by
Joani Mortenson
Fall 2013

Other Mothers/Other Mothering
edited by Angelita Reyes
Fall 2013

Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism
edited by Melinda Vandenbeld Giles
Fall 2013

Counting on
Marilyn Waring
edited by
Margunn Bjørnholt
and Ailsa McKay
Spring 2014

Mother of Invention
How Our Mothers Influenced us as Feminist Academics and Activists Co-editors: Vanessa Reimer
and Sarah Sahagian Spring 2014

Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing
edited by Cristina Herrera and Paula Sanmartín Spring 2014

Disabled Mothers
edited by Gloria Filax
and Dena Taylor
Fall 2014

Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
Co-Editors: Fiona Green and May Friedman
Publication Date: 2014

East Asian Mothering: Politics and Practices
Co-Editors: Patti Duncan and Gina Wong
Publication Date: 2014
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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Spring 2012 Academic Motherhood in a edited by Lynn O’Brien Hallstein and Andrea O’Reilly |
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Spring 2011 The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to do it |
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Fall 2009 Edited by Andrea O'Reilly |
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February 2009 Eds. Jessica Nathanson and Laura Camille Tuley |
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October 2007 White Ink: Edited by Rishma Dunlop Click here for a recent review by Jill Scott, Queen’s University. |
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 |
2004 Mother Matters: Edited by Other books: Teaching Motherhood: A Collection of Post-Secondary
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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
