Books published by Demeter Press

Examines the meaning and practice of mothering/motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. Each chapter provides background and context, examines the challenges and possibilities of mothering/motherhood for each group of mothers and considers directions for future research.

Offers a composite story on African Canadian mothers' experiences of teaching and learning while mothering. The book seeks to celebrate the African mother's everyday experiences and honour her embodied and cultural knowledge as important sites of meaning making and discovery for the African child.

Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyse culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema.

Explores some of the ways in which reproductive experiences are taken up in the rich arena of cultural production. The chapters in this collection pose questions, unsettle assumptions, and generate broad imaginative spaces for thinking about representation of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.

Brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies.

Draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Intimate labour as a theoretical construct provides a way to think about the kind of care doulas offer women across the reproductive spectrum.

Exploring the shared intersections of mothering, motherhood and sex work, this book weaves together a range of voices from academic and sex-worker communities around the world. It features interdisciplinary contributions, scholarly essays, academic research, artwork, poetry, photography and experiential narratives.