Price: $45.95
Page Count: 420
Publication Date: May 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77258-575-9
"Through personal storytelling, this edited volume brings together the diversity of what it means for mothers to create meaning-making through myth. This book provides a beautiful, insightful acknowledgement of the many Mother Goddess traditions, asking complex questions yet also giving reverence for the possibilities within new narratives of the Sacred Mother."
- Dr. Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, Anthropology, Lakehead University
"The sage writers of these critical narratives act as Midwives - birthing forth the DNA of our shared, ancestral myths and histories through memoir."
- Kara Ghobhainn Smith, Poet and Educator
Introduction: Mothers, Myths and Mythos
Alys Einion and Rachael Williams.
Chapter 1: From the Earth to the Moon: Mother Goddess Myths and Me
Alys Einion
Chapter 2: Changing Woman
Rachael Williams
Chapter 3: Becoming Whole: A Feminist Spiritual Quest
Blythe Collier.
Chapter 4: A Poet in Austyn’s Pocket: A Fantastical Tale for Adults Who Think They’ve Lost Their Play.
Lauren E Burrow.
Chapter 5: Alma Mater
Sarah Dixon
Chapter 6: Myth, Mythology and Motherhood
Vanessa Marr and Jess Moriarty
Chapter 7: Between Myth and Reality: The Cultural And Digital Narratives of Childbirth
India Lawton
Chapter 8: Becoming Rhiannon: A Mother’s Memoir.
Dr Alys Einion:
Chapter 9: Mothers, Mothering, Making and Nature
Polly Duplock
Chapter 10: Cosmic Placentas
Laura Godfrey Isaacs
Chapter 11: On Heart
Federica Bruni
Chapter 12: Time Zones
Wanda Campbell
Chapter 13: You as Medea, Mum
Hazel Larkin and Kashmira Larkin
Chapter 14: Baby-Snatching Demons and Where to Find Them
Julye Bidmead
Chapter 15: My Life in red
Cornelia Hoogland
Chapter 16: Adolescence and Matrescence: Seasons of the Witch
Laura Bissell
Chapter 17: Motherhood, Mythology and the Monstrous Feminine in Painting
Alexandra Carter
Chapter 18: But What About Their Mums?
Rachael Williams
EndPiece: What we learned about mother myths.
Alys Einion and Rachael Williams
Author Biographies
Dr Alys Einion, FRCM is an academic midwife, educator, editor and author, pagan chaplain, vegan, inclusive feminist, hypnobirthing and hypnofertility practitioner, and former Editor of The Practising Midwife. She has authored dozens of book chapters, journal articles, editorials and presentations. Her novels Inshallah and Ash are published by www.honno.co.uk, with Letters from Ravensbrück due in 2027. A proud Cymraes, Alys lives in Dundee, Scotland with her adult son and sufficient books to be officially a library.
Rachael Williams is a lecturer in nursing, a practising midwife and nurse of Canadian, indigenous/mixed heritage, resident in Scotland, UK. As a staunch proponent of woman-led models of midwifery, and mother of an eight-year-old, she has interests in mothers’ experience of neonatal resuscitation, and of treatment following a change in risk, as well as the global perspective of what makes midwives happy, not least from the perspective of maintaining care quality. She also writes fiction.
