Navigating Academic Motherhood
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-65166-8 (ISBN)
Featuring personal essays and research-based commentaries about effective mentoring for mothers in academia, this book unpacks the varied and complex challenges involved in achieving a work/family balance. With contributors from a multitude of types of institutions and disciplines, including psychology, education, music, chemistry, philosophy, and more, this collection of essays presents a diverse and engaging array of perspectives on topics ranging from navigating pregnancy to staying productive while managing competing home and work responsibilities.
This important volume is intended for graduate students, professors, higher education administrators, and scholars across education, gender and sexuality in education, and women’s studies. It will also be a vital resource for those with interests in gender equity in education more broadly.
Elizabeth Gates Bradley is a Professor in the School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State University, USA. Vonzell Agosto is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Women and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida, USA.
1. Introduction 2. Not as I Thought: Reflections on Forging a Career While Pushing a Stroller 3. I Don’t Know How She Did It!! Reflections on Life as a Baby Boomer Mother and Academic 4. On Being a Unicorn: Motherhood and Academic Leadership 5. The Juggle is real: the hidden workload for mothers in the academy 6. Benefits and Burdens: A Philosopher’s Perspective on Motherhood in Academia 7. “Aren't you a little young to be Department Chair?” 8. Finding the “Right” Path to Navigating Academia and Motherhood 9. I’m Not Tired 10. Persisting in Supportive Contexts 11. Reproducing and Refusing Ideal Narratives 12. Leaning in or opting out: Learning to prioritize when we can’t have it all 13. Being the tenure-track “filling” in the sandwich-generation struggle 14. Breaking Barriers and Water in Chemistry 15. Close to Home: Mama Mentor 16. No More Effs Left to Give 17. The lizard in the back of the room: what my son taught me about teaching college students 18. Mentor or Sponsor: The key to the balancing act of having a family and career 19. It Takes a Village to Raise an Associate Professor
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.06.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in Higher Education |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-65166-0 / 1032651660 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-65166-8 / 9781032651668 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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