Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy [Hardcover]

Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and trans-disciplinary book features mother scholars who bring their theoretical and disciplinary lenses to bear on questions of identity, practice, policy, institutional memory, progress, and the gendered notion of parenting that still pervades the modern academy.Anna M. Young is associate professor of communication at Pacific Lutheran University.

Much of the literature in on being a mother in academe breaks down the various -- usually negative -- ways womens careers are impacted by having children, and then suggests ways in which colleges and universities can better support academic moms. And if youre looking for another book like that, Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy isnt for you. Instead of a quantitative or qualitative study of its subject matter, the book instead explores what it means to be a mother in academe through firsthand accounts collected by editor Anna M. Young. . . .The recurrent theme -- that living a life of the mind while changing diapers, attending kids soccer games and trying to raise good human beings is both challenging and enriching to all pursuits -- rings true. Inside Higher Ed

Teacher, Scholar, Mother accomplishes its stated goal  to re-envision motherhood in the Academy. The grim statistics facing women in the Academy who are (or wish to be) mothers are not mere numbers, but a lived reality for many, either personally or through the lives of colleagues. These facts mirror institutional, social, and cultural inequities that cause the consistent talent leak in the professional pipeline which forces so many scholar mothers to leave the Academy. While this grim reality may not be changing fast enough, the essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative perspectives that address these challenges with fortilsx