Founded in 2006, Demeter is an independent feminist press committed to publishing peer-reviewed scholarly work, fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction on mothering, reproduction, sexuality and family. The press is named in honour of the Goddess Demeter, herstory’s most celebrated empowered and outraged mother.
The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement is an integral part of community building for both researchers, academics and grassroots, and mothers interested in the topic of motherhood. The mandate of the Journal is to publish the most current, high quality scholarship on mothering-motherhood and to ensure that this scholarship considers motherhood in an international context and from a multitude of perspectives including differences of class, race, sexuality, age, ethnicity, ability and nationality.
When I started my graduate studies in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies, it was my ultimate goal to one day contribute to and mobilize knowledge in this field. It is such an honour to begin to fulfill this dream.
