Parenting and Professing

Rachel Hile Bassett

Description

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.

Sujets

• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology
• Parenting
• Marriage
• Education
• Family

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 25 juillet 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826591906
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Parenting &Professing

Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career

Edited by Rachel Hile Bassett

Parenting and Professing:  Balancing Family Work  with an Academic Career

Parenting and  Professing

Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career

Edited by Rachel Hile Bassett

Vanderbilt University Press àŝIé

© 2005 Vanderbilt University Press All rights reserved First Edition 2005

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is book is printed on acid-free paper. Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Parenting and professing : balancing family work with an academic career / edited by Rachel Hile Bassett.— 1st ed.  p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8265-1477-4 (cloth : alk. paper ISBN 0-8265-1478-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women college teachers—United States—  Family relationships—Case studies. 2. Women college teachers—United States—  Social conditions—Case studies. 3. Parenting—Social aspects—United States—Case studies. 4. Working mothers—United States—Case studies.  I. Bassett, Rachel Hile, 1971- LB2332.32.P37 2005 378.1’2’082—dc22  2004029426

is book is dedicated to Joseph Everet and Helen St. Clare, and to all the other children celebrated in these pages.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword xiii Andrea O’Reilly

Introduction 1 Rachel Hile Bassett

TP A R I Challenges

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La estudiante caminante: My Motherwork Is Here, My Otherwork Is ere 21 Shimberlee Jirón-King

e Language of Parenting Marc Christensen

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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 56 Janice Rieman

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Madonna with Child: Untenured, but Not Undone Cindy Patey Brewer

Twins and the Academic Career Kathryn Jacobs

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Hiding the Baby Gale Walden

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Parenting and Professing

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Today, She’s Just Mama Lorretta Holloway

Mary Was an Adjunct Norma Tilden

P A R T I I Possibilities

Science Mom Rachel Fink

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Pregnant with Meaning: A Mother’s Sojourn in the Academy 113 Nancy Gerber Elemental MoEr 122 Michelle M. Francl-Donnay Chuck E. Cheese at Noon: Adventures in Parenting and Higher Education 133 Susan Jacobowitz Great Expectations: An Academic’s Crash Course in Parenthood 141 Heather Bouwman e Two-ousand-Mile Commute 151 Lynn Z. Bloom

e One with the Baby: Single-Mothering in Academia Tarshia L. Stanley

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Contents ix

Boomerangst 173 Kathleen B. Jones Terms of Inclusion? Rejecting the Role of “Honorary Man” in the Ivory Tower 182 Alison M. omas rough Foreign Eyes: Adoption Angles and Maternity-Leave Suggestions 192 Christina E. Brantner Mothers and “Others” Providing Care Within and Outside of the Academy 204 Gayle Letherby, Jen Marchbank, Karen Ramsay, and John Shiels e Life I Didn’t Know I Wanted 217 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

Contributors

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