Parenting And Professing
Subtitle: Balancing Family Work With An Academic Career
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780826514783
Subjects: Family & Relationships; Higher & further education; Women's studies; Women college teachers; Social aspects; Family/Marriage; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Parenting - Motherhood; Parenting; Gender Studies; Women & Business; Education / Teaching; Social conditions; United States; Conflict Resolution; Case studies; Family Relationships
First sentence: In order to understand the difficulty of this sojourn, my readers must understand that my spouse and I do not come from the working class.
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."--Jacket.