| Description |
253 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
La estudiante caminante : my (m)other works (t)here / Shimberlee Jirón-King -- The language of parenting / Marc Christensen -- Escaping autism : balancing motherhood and academia / Katharine Lane Antolini -- Choosing motherhood as a female chemist / Donna J. Nelson -- Tenure-track to mommy-track : in search of my scholarly self / Janice Rieman -- Madonna with child : untenured, but not undone / Cindy Patey Brewer -- Twins and the academic career / Kathryn Jacobs -- Hiding the baby / Gale Walden -- The one with the baby : single-mothering in academia / Tarshia L. Stanley -- Today, she's just Mama / Lorretta Holloway -- Mary was an adjunct / Norma Tilden -- Pregnant with meaning : a mother's sojourn in the academy / Nancy Gerber -- Elemental MoThEr / Michelle M. Francl-Donnay -- Chuck E. Cheese at noon : adventures in parenting and higher education / Susan Jacobowitz -- Great expectations : an academic's crash course in parenthood / Heather Bouwman -- The two thousand mile commute / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Science mom / Rachel Fink -- Boomerangst / Kathleen B. Jones -- Terms of inclusion? : rejecting the role of 'honorary man' in the ivory tower / Alison M. Thomas -- Through foreign eyes : adoption angles and maternity-leave suggestions / Christina E. Brantner -- Mothers and 'others' providing care within and outside of the academy / Gayle Letherby ... [et al.] -- The life I didn't know I wanted / Rachel Hile Bassett -- Living and teaching developmental psychology in a liberal arts setting : blending of mothering roles / Suzanne M. Cox -- Of diesels and diapers : a resident alien in motherland / Anna Wilson. ́ ̧ ♭t |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women college teachers -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies.
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Women college teachers -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
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Parenting -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
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Working mothers -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Bassett, Rachel Hile, 1971-
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| LC no. |
2004029426 |
| ISBN |
0826514774 cloth alkaline paper |
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0826514782 paperback alkaline paper |
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