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Format: 1 online resource (295 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 1-77112-264-1 , 1-77112-263-3

Content: The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectives-gender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation-and at different phases of a parent's academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it reveals the shifting ideologies surrounding the challenges of negotiating work and family balance in this context.  Earlier research on parenting has documented the ways in which women and men experience, and subsequently negotiate, their roles as parents in the context of the workplace and the home. Particular attention has been paid to the negotiation of familial and childcare responsibilities, the division of labour, the availability of family-friendly policies, social constructions of motherhood and fatherhood, power relations, and gender roles and inequality. Studies on the experience of parenthood within the context of academia, however, have lacked diversity and failed to provide qualitative accounts from scholars of all genders at varying points in their academic careers who have, or are planning to have, children. This book addresses that gap.

Note: Front Matter -- , Contents -- , On Overlaps and Bleeds -- , Pregnant Publications Pause -- , Introduction -- , Foundational Narratives -- , Unanswered and Lingering Questions -- , Work-Family Balance? -- , Making the Big Decision -- , Conversations with Women -- , Academia, My Mother, and Me -- , Patchwork Academia -- , Motherhood and Graduate Studies -- , I've Been to Me -- , Parenting within Academia: Friend or Foe? -- , Fatherhood and the PhD -- , Going In and Coming Out -- , Longing to Belong -- , "Dad and Mom Do Not Want to Get Zeroes" -- , Of Diapers and Comprehensives -- , He Told Me "Babies Sleep" -- , Legacy and Vulnerability -- , Surviving Parenthood and Academia -- , Parent-Student, Student-Parent -- , Ongoing Negotiation in Academia -- , Navigating Role Conflict in Pursuit of an Academic Career -- , Engaging Academia as the Nest Empties -- , Juggling Fatherhood, Child Disability, and Academia -- , Hopeful Intrusions -- , A Bridge Too Far? The Elephant in the Ivory Tower -- , Baby Step by Baby Step -- , About the Authors -- , Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-77112-241-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.51644/9781771122634