Important and necessary readings on mothering, reproduction, sexuality, and the family are now available for $14.95 USD/$20 CAN from Demeter Press, www.demeterpress.org Available as PDFs 100-plus books to choose from on almost every imaginable motherhood topic Great for book clubs and classroom readings. Please click on the link below for the list of available titles and email Tracey Carlyle (carlyletracey@gmail.com) your order. Books will be emailed directly to you. An affordable and accessible way to read all the exciting fiction and research being published on motherhood AND a way to support our non-profit feminist press

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2025

GONE FERAL

FROM MOTHER TO CAREGIVER: ,MOTHERING CHILDREN WITH LONGLIFE CARE NEEDS ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE

MOTHERING AND MOTHERWORK IN TIMES OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

THEORIZING MOTHERHOOD AND EMERGING ADULTHOOD REPRESENTATIONS, EXPLORATIONS AND CONTENTIONS

2024

CARE(FUL) RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MOTHERS AND THE CAREGIVERS THEY HIRE

FALLING THROUGH THE NIGHT

IN (M) OTHER WORDS

THE MISSING MOTHER

THE MOTHER WAVE: Theorizing, Enacting and- Representing Matricentric Feminism

WILD WITH CHILD

CLASS LESSONS: Stories of Vulnerable Youth

HUMAN(E): A RADICAL REIMAGINGING OF GRIEF, LOSS AND LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT

REMATRIATING JUSTICE: HONOURING THE LIVES OF OUR INDIGENOUS SISTERS

THE PAIN MOTHERS MUST NEVER EXPOSE

GIVE AND TAKE: MOTHERHOOD AND CREATIVE PRCATICE

2023

AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AND BLACK PEOPLE’S RESILIENCE DURING COVID 19

UNEXPECTED:A Postpartum Memoir

AN ARTIST AND A MOTHER

COMING INTO BEING : Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism

MOTHERING OUTSIDE THE LINES: TALES OF Boundary Busting Mamas

A DEATH IN THE FAMILY: STORIES OBITS TELL

DIARY FOR MY BABIES: JOURNEYING THROUGH PREGNANCY LOSS

ARE THE KIDS ALRIGHT? THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC ON CHRILDRE AND THEIR FAMILIES

DON’T TELL: FAMILY SECRETS

MOMMY BRAIN: DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF THE MATERNAL BRAIN

MY KIND OF CRAZY

RE-IMAGINING MOTHERING & CAREER , INSIGHTS FROM A TIME LINE OF CRISIS

2022

WHERE DID I GO? REFLECTIONS ON SO-CALLED LATE MOTHERING

MATERNAL REGRET: RESISTANCES RENUNCIATIONS AND REFLECTIONS

MOTHERS WHO KILL

NORMATIVE MOTHERHOOD

BLACK SISTERHOODS: PARADIGMS AND PRAXIS

GUN VIOLENCE AND GUN CONTROL: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS

MATERNAL CONNECTIONS: WHEN DAUGHTER BECOMES MOTHER

MOTHER LOAD: MEMOIRS OF STRUGGLE AND STRENGTH

MOTHERING COMMUNITY AND FRIENDSHIP

MOTHERING ON THE EDGE: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF MOTHERING WITHIN CHILD PROTACTIVE SYSTOMS

OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE: REALITIES AND RESIST

PARENTING INTERNET KIDS: DOMESTICATING TECHNOLOGIES

RUIN

LIMINAL CHRYSALIS: IMAGINING REPRODUCTION AND PARENTING FUTURES BEYOND BINARY

2021

GRANDMOTHERS & GRANDMOTHERING: CREATIVE

MONSTROUS MOTHERS: TROUBLING TROPES

VISITING AFRICA; A MEMOIR

ABORTION AND MOTHERING: RESEARCH STORIES AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS

MATERNAL THEORY: ESSENTIAL READINGS THE 2nd EDITION

MOTHERS MOTHERING AND COVID 19: DISPATCHES FROM THE PANDEMIC

MUSINGS ON PERIMENOPAUSE AND MENOPAUSE: IDENTITY, EXPERIENCE, TRANSITION

BIRTH

FALLING TOGETHER: A FAMILY’S STORY OF METAL ILLNESS AND GRIEF

FROM BAND AID TO SCALPELS: MOTHERHOOD EXPERIENCES IN OF MEDICINE

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON MOTHERHOOD MOTHERING AND MASCULINITIES

MATRICENTRIC FEMINISM: THEORY ACTIVISM PRACTICE THE 2nd EDITION

MOVING MEALS AND MIGRATING MOTHERS: CULINARY, CULTURES,DIASPORIC DISHES AND FAMILIAL FOODWAYS

PAGAN GODDESS MOTHER

THE TRUTH ABOUT(M)OTHERHOOD CHOOSING TO BE CHILDFREE

THIS LIFE I’VE BLED A MEMOIR

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON HUMOUR AND LAUGHTER

2020

MOTHERING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES,IDENTIES AND COMPLEXITIES

FEMINIST PARENTING.PERSPECTIVES FROM AFRICA AND BEYOND

MOTHERING AND WELFARE: DEPRIVING ,SURVIVING,THRIVING

BODY STORIES: IN AND OUT AND WITH AND THROUGH FAT

BREASTS ACROSS MOTHERHOOD: LIVED EXPERIENCES AND CRITICAL EXAMINATIONS

ENVIORMENTAL ACTIVISM AND THE MATERNAL: MOTHERS AND ,OTHER EARTH IN ACTIVISM AND DISCOURSE

FEMINIST FATHERING FATHERING FEMINISTS: NEW DEFINITIONS AND DIRECTIONS

MOTHERS SEX AND SEXUALITY

NOT YOUR PENANCE

RAPE CULTURE 101: PROGRAMMING CHANGE

THE MATERNAL TUG

WHAT?S IN A NAME? PERSPECTIVES FROM NON-BIOLOGICAL AND NON GESTATIONAL QUEER MOTHERS

WRITING MOTHERS NARRATIVE ACTS OF CARE, REDEMPTION AND TRANSFORMATION

2019

MOTHER WITHOUT THEIR CHILDREN

SEXUAL REGULATION AND THE LAW: A CANADIA

TRAVELLIN MAMA MOTHERS MOTHERING AND TRAVEL

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON 21ST CENTURY FRIENDSHIP, POLYGAMY AND PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS

INAPPROPRIATE BODIES ART DESIGN AND MATERNITY

MATERNAL GEOGRAPHIES MOTHERING IN AND OUT OF PLACE

MENSTRATION NOW WHAT DOES BLOOD PERFORM?

MOTHERHOOD AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION

MOTHERS AS KEEPERS AND TELLERS OF ORIGIN STORIES

STORIES WE LIVE AND GROW BY

FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON YOUNG MOTHERS AND YOUNG MOTHERING

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WIVES: ROLES REPRESENTATIONS,IDENTIES AND WORK

2018

BEARING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD EXPLORING MATERNAL EMBODIMENT

HEAVY BURDENS: STORIES OF MOTHERHOOD AND FATNESS

MOTHERHOOD IN PRECARIOUS TIMES

MOTHERS MILITARY AND SOCIETY

MOTHERS MOTHERING AND SPORT: EXPERIENCES,REPRESENTATIONS, RESISTANCES

WHITE UNWED MOTHER ; THE ADOPTION MANDATE IN POST WAR CANADA

2006

UNTIL OUR HEARTS ARE ON THE GROUND: ABORIGINAL OPPRESSION RESISTANCE AND REBIRTH