Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780813544984
Content:
Candid, provocative, and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, the thirty-five essays in this anthology speak to and offer support for any woman attempting to combine work and family, as well as anyone who is interested in improving the university's ability to live up to its reputation to be among the most progressive of American institutions.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: 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 -- Part Two: 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 Mamá'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 -- Part Three: 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 -- Part Four: 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? -- Contributors.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813543178
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813543185
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813543178
Additional Edition:
Print version Mama PhD : Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life
Language:
English
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