TY - BOOK AU - Bassett,Rachel Hile TI - Parenting and professing: balancing family work with an academic career SN - 0826514774 AV - LB2332.32 .P37 2005 U1 - 378.12082 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Nashville PB - Vanderbilt University Press KW - Women college teachers KW - United States KW - Family relationships KW - Case studies KW - Social conditions KW - Parenting KW - Social aspects KW - Working mothers N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -