Academic Mothers Building Online Communities

It Takes a Village

Sarah Trocchio, Lisa K. Hanasono, Jessica Jorgenson Borchert, Rachael Dwyer, Jeanette Yih Harvie (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XXXVII, 347 Seiten

2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783031266645 (ISBN)

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This volume focuses on the diverse ways in which mothers working within academia seek to find others with similar experiences to build virtual communities. Although the faculty and student populations of universities have diversified, mothers in academia are disproportionately overrepresented in precarious faculty and staff positions and continue to experience myriad institutional and interpersonal barriers, such as gender wage gaps that are exacerbated by stop-the-clock tenure policies, inadequate parental leave policies, expensive or scarce local childcare options, and social biases. The book gives space to the many ways women create and challenge their own versions of motherhood through a digital "village," examining how academic mothers use virtual communities to seek and enact different kinds of support.

Sarah Trocchio is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Rider University, USA. Trocchio's research focuses on the mechanisms through which structural inequity is reflected, reinforced, or mitigated in varied workplace contexts. She is a nationally board certified coach in the USA, and owns her own career coaching & strategy practice called the Square Peg Club (SPC). The firm supports women and non-binary academics to get clear about what they want professionally and find greater ease and joy in their careers through bold moves that recognize their desires and honor their worth. Lisa K. Hanasono is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication and an affiliated faculty of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Bowling Green State University, USA. She researches how people communicate social biases, shatter stigmas, and respond to discrimination. Jessica Jorgenson Borchert is Associate Professor of English, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, and Director of Professional Writing at Pittsburg State University, USA. Her research focuses on medical and health rhetoric. She has previously published on breastfeeding rhetoric and postpartum dress practices in academia. Rachael Dwyer is Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy in the School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her scholarly work is underpinned by a social change agenda, engaging in arts-based research that allows for collaborative, applied work drawing on rich and longitudinal relationships with participants, students and the broader community. Jeanette Yih Harvie is a Research Associate with the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, USA. Harvie is previously a college lecturer and an independent researcher. She has published extensively on how public policy and political institutions impact the citizenship development and political behavior of military veterans and underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. Her current work mainly examines the impact of military lifestyle on military-connected families, women, and transitioning veterans and other civil-military relation issues.

1. It Takes a Village: Academic Mothers Building Online Communities.- Part I Identity and Marginalization.- 2. How Finding Identity with an Online Community Led to Advocacy.- 3. (Un)Supported: Challenges and Opportunities Experienced by Academic Mothers of Color in Online Communities.- 4. Barefoot Strangers: Multinational Digital Epistemologies of Academic Moms, Mamás, Mamy, Umahat.- 5. Creating an Online Community of Support: Mothers of Children with Disabilities Working in the Academy.- 6. Who Is There When Everything Changes?: The Anchoring Effect of Online Maternal Support Groups During Periods of Liminal Professional Identity.- 7. How Academic Mothers Experience Face Threatening Acts and Reinforcing Facework on Instagram.- 8. #GradStudentMom Finds Community Online.- 9. Being Alone Together: The Affordances and Constraints of Social Media Groups for Single Moms.- Part II Connection and Support.- 10. Dealing with Death inAcademia, or When 11,000 Mamas* Had my Back.- 11. The Face(book) of Academic Motherhood: Online Communities Respond to the Traumatic and the Mundane.- 12. Hell Hath No Fury Like a Scorned Woman's Friend: Reflected Anger in Academic Mother* Online Groups.- 13. Online Groups as Source for Communication about the Taboo: Sexual Implications for Academic Mothers*.- 14. Social Support Theory: Physical Isolation and Academia with Children.- Part III Pandemic Parenting.- 15. Building Welcoming Spaces on Social Media: Motherhood in Academia During a Pandemic and Beyond.- 16. Drafting while Drifting: Developing a Digital Village of Support and Advocacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 17. Building a Virtual Village: Academic Mothers'* Online Social Networking During COVID-19.- 18. The First Rule about Writing Group: How a Virtual Writing Group Changed My Trajectory Without Saying a Word.- 19. "Comedy and Tragedy," or How We Used Our Group Chat to Fill the Pandemic Care Gap.- 20. Kids at the Door: An Autoethnography of Our Shared Research Identity as Academic Mothers in Virtual Collaboration.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2023
Zusatzinfo	XXXVII, 347 p. 20 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	632 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	academic career • academic mother • #gradstudentmom • gradstudentmom • PhD study • single moms • Social Media
ISBN-13	9783031266645 / 9783031266645
Zustand	Neuware