Mama, Ph.D.

by Evans, Elrena; Grant, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780813543178
• ISBN10: 0813543177
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

This literary anthology brings together 35 essays of deeply felt personal narratives of the sexes in higher education and suggest changes that could make universities more family-friendly workplaces. Contributors, including those of single and adoptive parents address topics that range from the level of policy to practical day-to-day concerns.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
The Conversation
The Conversation	p. 3
In Medias Res	p. 11
Scholar, Negated	p. 16
Student/Body	p. 20
On Being Phyllis's Daughter: Thoughts on Academic Intimacy	p. 25
Engineering Motherhood	p. 31
The Wire Mother	p. 39
Fitting In	p. 49
Motherhood after Tenure: Confessions of a Late Bloomer	p. 55
That Mommy Thing
First Day of School	p. 63
Two Boards and a Passion: On Theater, Academia, and the Art of Failure	p. 66
Living (!) A Life I Never Planned	p. 72
Coming to Terms at Full Term	p. 77
One Mama's Dispensable Myths and Indispensable Machines	p. 80
That Mommy Thing	p. 89
Failure to Progress: What Having a Baby Taught Me about Aristotle, Advanced Degrees, Developmental Delays, and Other Natural Disasters	p. 93
Infinite Calculations	p. 103
I Stand Here Teaching: Tillie Olsen and Maternity in the Classroom	p. 109
The Facts, the Stories	p. 116
I Am Not a Head on a Stick: On Being a Teacher and a Doctor and a Mommy	p. 123
Lip Service	p. 129
Body Double	p. 136
Recovering Academic
The Long and Winding Road	p. 145
The Bags I Carried	p. 149
One of the Boys	p. 159
Free to Be ... Mom and Me: Finding My Complicated Truth as an Academic Daughter	p. 168
Nontraditional Academics: At Home with Children and a PhD	p. 174
A Great Place to Have a Baby	p. 184
Recovering Academic	p. 189
Momifesto
The Orange Kangaroo	p. 201
Ideal Mama, Ideal Worker: Negotiating Guilt and Shame in Academe	p. 213
In Theory/In Practice: On Choosing Children and the Academy	p. 222
Motherhood Is Easy; Graduate School Is Hard	p. 231
Momifesto: Affirmations for the Academic Mother	p. 237
In Dreams Begin Possibilities-Or, Anybody Have Time for a Change?	p. 247
Contributors	p. 251
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