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Today, more and more grandmothers around the world are taking on
varied responsibilities and many roles, sometimes concurrently.
Consequently, grandmothers continue to play, as in the past, an
influential role not only in the lives of their grandchildren, but
also in our communities and in society more broadly. Grandmothers
and Grandmothering: Creative and Critical Contemplations in Honour
of our Women Elders, as the title suggests, seeks to pay homage to
our grandmothers and their contributions to society. As well, it
aims to explore the textured and complex phenomena of
grandmothering from a range of disciplines and cultural
perspectives. Our hope is that this collection challenges
preconceived notions of what it means to be a grandmother and
provides insight into the multifaceted nature of grandmothering.
Spawning Generations is a collection of stories by queerspawn
(people with LGBTQ parents) spanning six decades, three continents,
and five countries. Curated by queerspawn, this anthology is about
carving out a space for queerspawn to tell their own stories. The
contributors in this volume break away from the pressures to be
perfect, the demands to be well adjusted, and the need to prove
that they turned out "all right." These are queerspawn stories,
airbrushed for no one, and told on their own terms
Demeter Press took on the challenge of discussing multiples through
On Mothering Multiples: Complexities and Possibilities, a book that
promised to "(re)explore, (re)present, and make meaning of the
process of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering
experiences with multiples". Under the editorship of Kathy Mantas,
and through diverse contributions of research, artwork and
narrative pieces, this topic is explored with diverse voices that
elicit nuance towards a subject that often suffers from cliche and
overt charm. Daring to taunt the reader who may be beguiled by the
blessing of multiples with an unflinching look at subjects such as
fetal demise, disability, post-partum depression, the beauty and
the beast of the post-twin maternal body, and the society's
obsession and derision with multiples conceived through assistive
reproductive technology, this book is a foundational text on the
topic of the messiness of multiple births and mothering. This
collection manages to be both intensely personal while maintaining
the scholarly distance necessary to offer an important contribution
to the field of motherhood studies as well as intersecting with
grief work and disability studies. Published in 2016, this book
remains provocative, and stealth in how it unfurls its wisdom,
providing both clarity and further complication on this subject
with more insight to gain with each revisit to the text.
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