Parenting and professing : balancing family work with an academic career /
Parenting and professing : balancing family work with an academic career /
edited by Rachel Hile Bassett.
- First edition.
- xvii, 253 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Introduction / La estudiante caminante : my motherwork is here, my otherwork is there / The language of parenting / Escaping autism : balancing motherhood and academia / Choosing motherhood as a female chemist / Tenure-track to mommy-track : in search of my scholarly self / Madonna with child : untenured, but not undone / Twins and the academic career / Hiding the baby / The one with the baby : single-mothering in academia / Today, she's just mama / Mary was an adjunct / Pregnant with meaning : a mother's sojourn in the academy / Elemental MoThEr / Chuck E. Cheese at noon : adventures in parenting and higher education / Great expectations : an academic's crash course in parenthood / The two-thousand-mile commute / Science mom / Boomerangst / Terms of inclusion? : rejecting the role of "honorary man" in the ivory tower / Through foreign eyes : adoption angles and maternity-leave suggestions / Mothers and "others" providing care within and outside of the academy / The life I didn't know I wanted / Living and teaching developmental psychology in a liberal arts setting : blending of mothering roles / Of diesels and diapers : a resident alien in motherland / Andrea O'Reilly -- Rachel Hile Bassett -- Shimberlee Jiron-King -- Marc Christensen -- Katharine Lane Antolini -- Donna J. Nelson -- Janice Rieman -- Cindy Patey Brewer -- Kathryn Jacobs -- Gale Walden -- Tarshia L. Stanley -- Lorretta Holloway -- Norma Tilden -- Nancy Gerber -- Michelle M. Francl-Donnay -- Susan Jacobowitz -- Heather Bouwman -- Lynn Z. Bloom -- Rachel Fink -- Kathleen B. Jones -- Alison M. Thomas -- Christina E. Brantner -- Gayle Letherby, Jen Marchbank, Karen Ramsay and John Shiels -- Rachel Hile Bassett -- Suzanne M. Cox -- Anna Wilson. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
"Featuring many personal accounts, the twenty-four essays in this collection explore the challenges and possibilities confronting those, especially women, who combine parenting and academic work. Written by a diverse group of educators who present a real-world variety of situations, the collection also includes ideas for change at the individual, interpersonal, policy, and system levels."--BOOK JACKET.
0826514774 9780826514776 0826514782 9780826514783
2004029426
Women college teachers--Family relationships--United States--Case studies.
Women college teachers--Social conditions--United States--Case studies
Parenting--Social aspects--United States--Case studies
Working mothers--United States--Case studies
LB2332.32 / .P37 2005
378.12082
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Introduction / La estudiante caminante : my motherwork is here, my otherwork is there / The language of parenting / Escaping autism : balancing motherhood and academia / Choosing motherhood as a female chemist / Tenure-track to mommy-track : in search of my scholarly self / Madonna with child : untenured, but not undone / Twins and the academic career / Hiding the baby / The one with the baby : single-mothering in academia / Today, she's just mama / Mary was an adjunct / Pregnant with meaning : a mother's sojourn in the academy / Elemental MoThEr / Chuck E. Cheese at noon : adventures in parenting and higher education / Great expectations : an academic's crash course in parenthood / The two-thousand-mile commute / Science mom / Boomerangst / Terms of inclusion? : rejecting the role of "honorary man" in the ivory tower / Through foreign eyes : adoption angles and maternity-leave suggestions / Mothers and "others" providing care within and outside of the academy / The life I didn't know I wanted / Living and teaching developmental psychology in a liberal arts setting : blending of mothering roles / Of diesels and diapers : a resident alien in motherland / Andrea O'Reilly -- Rachel Hile Bassett -- Shimberlee Jiron-King -- Marc Christensen -- Katharine Lane Antolini -- Donna J. Nelson -- Janice Rieman -- Cindy Patey Brewer -- Kathryn Jacobs -- Gale Walden -- Tarshia L. Stanley -- Lorretta Holloway -- Norma Tilden -- Nancy Gerber -- Michelle M. Francl-Donnay -- Susan Jacobowitz -- Heather Bouwman -- Lynn Z. Bloom -- Rachel Fink -- Kathleen B. Jones -- Alison M. Thomas -- Christina E. Brantner -- Gayle Letherby, Jen Marchbank, Karen Ramsay and John Shiels -- Rachel Hile Bassett -- Suzanne M. Cox -- Anna Wilson. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
"Featuring many personal accounts, the twenty-four essays in this collection explore the challenges and possibilities confronting those, especially women, who combine parenting and academic work. Written by a diverse group of educators who present a real-world variety of situations, the collection also includes ideas for change at the individual, interpersonal, policy, and system levels."--BOOK JACKET.
0826514774 9780826514776 0826514782 9780826514783
2004029426
Women college teachers--Family relationships--United States--Case studies.
Women college teachers--Social conditions--United States--Case studies
Parenting--Social aspects--United States--Case studies
Working mothers--United States--Case studies
LB2332.32 / .P37 2005
378.12082