Demeter Press

Missing, dead, disappeared, or otherwise absent mothers haunt us and the stories we tell ourselves.

For myriad reasons, breastfeeding is a fraught issue among mothers in the U.S. and other industrialized nations and breastfeeding advocacy in particular remains a source of contention for feminist scholars and activists.

This collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be shaped by, and interconnected with, how mothers realize feminism and/or become feminists.

Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care. The authors creatively blend the philosophical and the personal to collectively argue that while gender is essential to

Whereas biomedical and feminist literature treat abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth as differently conceptualized events, this collection explores the connections between these three categories.

This book provides a rare and in-depth examination of the narratives, experiences, and lived realities of abused mothers a group of women.

Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization is an anthology that cogently and powerfully examines the diverse and complex experiences of motherhood and mothering from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. The lucid analysis of how globalization influences

Exploring the shared intersections of mothering, motherhood and sex work, Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work weaves together a range of voices from academic and sex-worker communities around the world. It features interdisciplinary contributions, schola