Mama, PhD Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life

Name: Mama, PhD Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life
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ISBN: 9780813543185

ISBN-10: 0813543185

ISBN-13: 9780813543185

Edition: 2008

Authors: Elrena Evans, Caroline Grant, Miriam Peskowitz

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Every year, American universities publish glowing reports stating their commitment to diversity, often showing statistics of female hires as proof of success. Yet, academic life remains overwhelmingly a man's world and the presence of women, specifically those with children, in the ranks of tenured faculty has not increased in a generation. This anthology explores the continued inequality of the sexes in higher education and suggests changes that could make universities more family-friendly workplaces. Candid, provocative, and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, the essays speak to and offer support for any woman attempting to combine work and family. Book jacket.

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List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 5/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Conversation


The Conversation



In Medias Res



Scholar, Negated



Student/Body



On Being Phyllis's Daughter: Thoughts on Academic Intimacy



Engineering Motherhood



The Wire Mother



Fitting In



Motherhood after Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer




That Mommy Thing


First Day of School



Two Boards and a Passion: On Theater, Academia, and the Art of Failure



Living (!) A Life I Never Planned



Coming to Terms at Full Term



One Mama's Dispensable Myths and Indispensable Machines



That Mommy Thing



Failure to Progress: What Having a Baby Taught Me about Aristotle, Advanced Degrees, Developmental Delays, and Other Natural Disasters



Infinite Calculations



I Stand Here Teaching: Tillie Olsen and Maternity in the Classroom



The Facts, the Stories



I Am Not a Head on a Stick: On Being a Teacher and a Doctor and a Mommy



Lip Service



Body Double




Recovering Academic


The Long and Winding Road



The Bags I Carried



One of the Boys



Free to Be ... Mom and Me: Finding My Complicated Truth as an Academic Daughter



Nontraditional Academics: At Home with Children and a PhD



A Great Place to Have a Baby



Recovering Academic




Momifesto


The Orange Kangaroo



Ideal Mama, Ideal Worker: Negotiating Guilt and Shame in Academe



In Theory/In Practice: On Choosing Children and the Academy



Motherhood Is Easy; Graduate School Is Hard



Momifesto: Affirmations for the Academic Mother



In Dreams Begin Possibilities-Or, Anybody Have Time for a Change?



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