Demeter Press - Maternal theory: essential readings

Black Motherhood(s)

This book considers Black Motherhood through multiple and global lenses to engage the reader in an expanded reflection and to prompt further discourse on the intersection of race and gender within the construct of motherhood among Black women. With an aim to extend traditional treatments of Black motherhood that are often centered on a subordinated and struggling perspective, these essays address some of the hegemonic reality while also exploring nuance in experiences, less explored areas of subjugation, as well as pathways of resistance and resilience in spite of it.

Lucinda and The Mighty Oak

Lucinda is a girl with a dream, an improbable goal. She wants to climb the oak tree that is such a big part of her world.

Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism

A well-known American academic and cofounder of Boston's first settlement house, Emily Greene Balch was an important Progressive Era reformer and advocate for world peace. Balch served as a professor of economics and sociology at Wellesley College for twenty years until her opposition to World War I resulted with the board of trustees refusing to renew her contract.

The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance

The Stoning of Soraya M.

Soraya M.'s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn't afford to marry another woman.

The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation

A provocative look at the way our culture deals with menstruation. The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruation and the devastating impact such secrecy has on women's physical and psychological health.

Women of America (Illustrated)

First published in 1907. Six illustrations.

Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society

Daughters of the Declaration

America's founding fathers established an idealistic framework for a bold experiment in democratic governance. The new nation would be built on the belief that all men are created equal, and are endowed.

Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author - perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles - but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown bohemia, of the American frontier, and of American modernism. J.

Global Care Work: Gender and Migration in Nordic Societies

Presenting empirical research on the lives of care workers, sex workers, au pairs, and their families, this anthology is a unique study of gender and migration.

Men and Feminism

There's no denying that men's involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply a women's issue.

Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936

In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country.

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential.

Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels

The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name. We do it in the dark.

Man Cannot Speak for Her: Volume II; Key Texts of the Early Feminists

The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the US. In these two volumes, Campbell provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who argued for equal rights, and the constraints and sanctions applied to those women who affronted the norms of society's expectation that true women were seldom seen and never spoke in public.

The Myth of Seneca Falls

The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.

Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball: Maud Nelson, Margaret Nabel

The Last Men on Top

*A feminist-and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason-looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?

Finding Cholita

Finding Cholita is a fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long history of discrimination, class oppression, and the rise and fall of the communist organization Shining Path.

Brides from Bridewell

Brides from Bridewell is the story of the female felons from England and France who were sent to Colonial America to serve their prison sentences. It sets forth the harsh, often inhuman, penal conditions then prevailing in those lands, and the fact that these thousands of feminine felons constituted one of the primary marital elements in the mothering of early America.

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today.

Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie

Texas would not be Texas without the formidable women of its past.

Feeling Women's Liberation

The term women's liberation remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970.

Women Still at Work

From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we're surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older.

Women Behind Bars

More and more women-mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, and sisters-are doing hard prison time all across the United States. Many of them are facing the prospect of years, decades, even lifetimes behind bars.

When Janey Comes Marching Home

While women are officially barred from combat in the American armed services, in the current war, where there are no front lines, the ban on combat is virtually meaningless. More than in any previous conflict in our history, American women are engaging with the enemy, suffering injuries, and even sacrificing their lives in the line of duty.

New Jersey Women in World War II

Real-life Rosie the Riveters worked the lines in New Jersey's factories, such as those of General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division, while women on the vulnerable coast enforced blackout orders.

Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences: A Reader

Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal, Adoptive, At-Home, Birth, Black, Disabled, East-Asian, Feminist, Immigrant/Refuge, Latina/Chicana, Poor/Low Income, Migrant, Non-Residential, Older, Queer, Rural, Single, South-Asian, Stepmothers, Working, Young Mothers, and Mothers of Adult Children.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)The first great manifesto of women's rights, published in 1792 and an immediate best seller, made its author the toast of radical circles and the target of reactionary ones.

A Game for Rough Girls?: A History of Women's Football in Britain

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders

The book Our Bodies, Ourselves is a feminist success story.

The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women

The Hidden Half is a collection of papers which are concerned with research and analyses on Plains Indian women.

Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution

Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research: Researching Differently

This volume centers on theories and methodologies for postgraduate feminist researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research.

Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement

For seventy-two years, American women fought for the right to vote, and many remarkable ladies on Long Island worked tirelessly during this important civil rights movement.

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

In this study of Marie Dressler, MGM's most profitable movie star in the early 1930s, Victoria Sturtevant analyzes Dressler's use of her body to challenge Hollywood's standards for leading ladies. At five feet seven inches tall and two hundred pounds, Dressler was never considered the popular "delicate beauty," often playing ugly ducklings, old maids, doting mothers, and imperious dowagers.

Why Doesn't She Just Leave?

Why would a woman stay in an abusive relationship? Doesn't she have any self-respect?

Living My Life, Vol. 2

""You damn bitch of an anarchist, I wish I could get at you. I would tear your heart out and feed it to my dog.

Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance, and Hope [2 volumes]: Topography, Resistance, and Hope

The story of men's roles in war and violence fills headlines and history books, but the women's narrative too often goes unnoticed.