Mama, PhD
Subtitle: women write about motherhood and academic life
By: edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant.
Contributors: Evans, Elrena, 1978-; Grant, Caroline, 1967-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780813543178; 9780813543185
Subjects: Women in higher education -- United States -- Social conditions; Motherhood -- United States
Description: "Every year, American universities publish glowing reports stating their commitment to diversity, often showing statistics of female hires as proof of success. Yet, academic life remains overwhelmingly a man's world and the presence of women, specifically those with children, in the ranks of tenured faculty has not increased in a generation. This anthology explores the continued inequality of the sexes in higher education and suggests changes that could make universities more family friendly workplaces. Candid, provocative, and sometimes with a wry sense of humor, the essays speak to and offer support for any woman attempting to combine work and family."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The conversation / Jamie Warner; title: In medias res / Sonya Huber; title: Scholar, negated / Jessica Smartt Gullion; title: Student/body / Sheila Squillante; title: On being Phyllis's daughter : thoughts on academic intimacy / Laura Levitt; title: Engineering motherhood / Jennifer Eyre White; title: The wire mother / Susan O'Doherty; title: Fitting in / Elrena Evans; title: Motherhood after tenure : confessions of a late bloomer / Aeron Haynie; title: First day of school / Amy Hudock; title: Boards and a passion : on theatre, academia, and the art of failure / Anjalee Deshpande Nadkarni; title: Living (!) a life I never planned / Rosemarie Emanuele; title: Coming to terms at full term / Natalie Kertes Weaver; title: One mamá's dispensable myths and indispensable machines / Angelica Duran; title: That mommy thing / Alissa McElreath; title: Failure to progress : what having a baby taught me about Aristotle, advanced degrees, developmental delays, and other natural disasters / Irena Auerbuch Smith; title: Infinite calculations / Della Fenster; title: I stand here teaching : Tillie Olsen and maternity in the classroom / Julia Lisella; title: The facts, the stories / Leah Bradshaw; title: I am not a head on a stick : on being a teacher and a doctor and a mommy / Elisabeth Rose Gruner; title: Lip service / Jennifer Cognard-Black; title: Body double / Leslie Leyland Fields; title: The long and winding road / Jean Kazez; title: The bags I carried / Caroline Grant; title: Of the boys / Martha Ellis Crone; title: Free to be; title: mom and me : finding my complicated truth as an academic daughter / Megan Pincus Kajitani; title: Nontraditional academics : at home with children and a PhD / Susan Bassow, Dana Campbell, Liz Stockwell; title: A great place to have a baby / Rebecca Steinitz; title: Recovering academic / Jennifer Margulis; title: The orange kangaroo / Nicole Cooley and Julia Spicher Kasdorf; title: Ideal mama, ideal worker : negotiating guilt and shame in academe / Jean-Anne Sutherland; title: In theory/in practice : on choosing children and the academy / Lisa Harper; title: Motherhood is easy; graduate school is hard / Tedra Osell; title: Momifesto : affirmations for the academic mother / Cynthia Kuhn ... [et al.]; title: In dreams begin possibilities; title: or, anybody have time for a change? / Judith Sanders.