Mama, PhD

Mama, PhD: women write about motherhood and academic life
Elrena Evans (Editor), Caroline Grant (Editor)
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
ISBN: 0813543185   ISBN13: 9780813543185   DDC: 378.155082   LCC: LC1568   Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

The conversation / Jamie Warner -- In medias res / Sonya Huber --
Scholar, negated / Jessica Smartt Gullion -- Student/body / Sheila
Squillante -- On being Phyllis's daughter: thoughts on academic
intimacy / Laura Levitt -- Engineering motherhood / Jennifer Eyre
White -- The wire mother / Susan O'Doherty -- Fitting in / Elrena
Evans -- Motherhood after tenure: confessions of a late bloomer /
Aeron Haynie -- First day of school / Amy Hudock -- Boards and a
passion: on theatre, academia, and the art of failure / Anjalee
Deshpande Nadkarni -- Living (!) a life I never planned / Rosemarie
Emanuele -- Coming to terms at full term / Natalie Kertes Weaver --
One mamá's dispensable myths and indispensable machines / Angelica
Duran -- That mommy thing / Alissa McElreath -- Failure to progress:
what having a baby taught me about Aristotle, advanced degrees,
developmental delays, and other natural disasters / Irena Auerbuch
Smith -- Infinite calculations / Della Fenster -- I stand here
teaching: Tillie Olsen and maternity in the classroom / Julia Lisella
-- The facts, the stories / Leah Bradshaw -- I am not a head on a
stick: on being a teacher and a doctor and a mommy / Elisabeth Rose
Gruner -- Lip service / Jennifer Cognard-Black -- Body double /
Leslie Leyland Fields -- The long and winding road / Jean Kazez --
The bags I carried / Caroline Grant -- Of the boys / Martha Ellis
Crone -- Free to be-- mom and me: finding my complicated truth as an
academic daughter / Megan Pincus Kajitani -- Nontraditional
academics: at home with children and a PhD / Susan Bassow, Dana
Campbell, Liz Stockwell -- A great place to have a baby / Rebecca
Steinitz -- Recovering academic / Jennifer Margulis -- The orange
kangaroo / Nicole Cooley and Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Ideal mama,
ideal worker: negotiating guilt and shame in academe / Jean-Anne
Sutherland -- In theory/in practice: on choosing children and the
academy / Lisa Harper -- Motherhood is easy; graduate school is hard
/ Tedra Osell -- Momifesto: affirmations for the academic mother /
Cynthia Kuhn ... [et al.] -- In dreams begin possibilities--or,
anybody have time for a change? / Judith Sanders.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 378.155082 -- Higher education
LCC Number: LC1568

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xxv, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk. : alk. paper)

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