Parenting and professing : balancing family work with an academic career / edited by Rachel Hile Bassett.
Material type: TextPublisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 253 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0826514774
- 9780826514776
- 0826514782
- 9780826514783
- 378.12082 22
- LB2332.32 .P37 2005
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378.12023 MCA Becoming an academic : international perspectives / | 378.12082 BAK Academic careers and the gender gap / | 378.12082 GEN Gender transformation in the academy / | 378.12082 PAR Parenting and professing : balancing family work with an academic career / | 378.12082 TED Tedious journeys : autoethnography by women of color in academe / | 378.12082094 GEN Gendered career trajectories in academia in cross-national perspective / | 378.1208996073 LON A long way to go : conversations about race by African American faculty and graduate students / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Andrea O'Reilly -- Introduction / Rachel Hile Bassett -- 1. La estudiante caminante : my motherwork is here, my otherwork is there / Shimberlee Jiron-King -- 2. The language of parenting / Marc Christensen -- 3. Escaping autism : balancing motherhood and academia / Katharine Lane Antolini -- 4. Choosing motherhood as a female chemist / Donna J. Nelson -- 5. Tenure-track to mommy-track : in search of my scholarly self / Janice Rieman -- 6. Madonna with child : untenured, but not undone / Cindy Patey Brewer -- 7. Twins and the academic career / Kathryn Jacobs -- 8. Hiding the baby / Gale Walden -- 9. The one with the baby : single-mothering in academia / Tarshia L. Stanley -- 10. Today, she's just mama / Lorretta Holloway -- 11. Mary was an adjunct / Norma Tilden -- 12. Pregnant with meaning : a mother's sojourn in the academy / Nancy Gerber -- 13. Elemental MoThEr / Michelle M. Francl-Donnay -- 14. Chuck E. Cheese at noon : adventures in parenting and higher education / Susan Jacobowitz -- 15. Great expectations : an academic's crash course in parenthood / Heather Bouwman -- 16. The two-thousand-mile commute / Lynn Z. Bloom -- 17. Science mom / Rachel Fink -- 18. Boomerangst / Kathleen B. Jones -- 19. Terms of inclusion? : rejecting the role of "honorary man" in the ivory tower / Alison M. Thomas -- 20. Through foreign eyes : adoption angles and maternity-leave suggestions / Christina E. Brantner -- 21. Mothers and "others" providing care within and outside of the academy / Gayle Letherby, Jen Marchbank, Karen Ramsay and John Shiels -- 22. The life I didn't know I wanted / Rachel Hile Bassett -- 23. Living and teaching developmental psychology in a liberal arts setting : blending of mothering roles / Suzanne M. Cox -- 24. Of diesels and diapers : a resident alien in motherland / Anna Wilson.
"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.
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