Professor Mommy (eBook)
246 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-0860-5 (ISBN)
Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorships. Professor Mommy addresses key questionswhen to have children and how many, what kinds of academic institutions are the most family friendly, how to negotiate around the myths that many people hold about academic life, etc.for women throughout all stages of their academic careers, from graduate school through full professor. The authors follow the demands of motherhood all the way from the infant stages through the empty nest. At each stage, the authors offer invaluable advice and tested strategies from women who have successfully juggled the demands and rewards of an academic career and motherhood. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, the book is accessible to women in all disciplines, with concise chapters for the time-constrained academic. The books conversational tone is supplemented with a review of the most current scholarship on work/family balance and a survey of emerging family-friendly practices at U.S. colleges and universities. Professor Mommy asserts that the faculty mother has become and will remain a permanent fixture on the landscape of the American academy.The paperback edition features a new Preface that addresses the public conversation about mothers and work raised in Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In and Ann Marie Slaughter's Why Women Still Can't Have it All. The new Preface also answers frequently asked questions from readers.
Rachel Connelly is the Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College and the mother of four children. As an economist specializing in labor and economic demography, she has spent her career dedicated to the investigation of the intersections between work and family life. Kristen Ghodsee is the Director and John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College and was a single mother during the tenure process. She has received numerous honors for her work, including grants from Fulbright, and the National Science Foundation, as well as residential fellowships at Harvard University and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. In 2012, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in anthropology and cultural studies.https://www.facebook.com/ProfessorMommy
Chapter 1 ContentsChapter 2 Introduction: Why We Decided to Write this Book and Who We Are AnywayChapter 3 Chapter 1: A Success Story Told with the Hindsight of 20/20 VisionChapter 4 Chapter 2: The Nefarious Nine or the Not-So-Pretty Truth about Motherhood and AcademiaChapter 5 Chapter 3: Know Thyself Part I -Deciding to Become an AcademicChapter 6 Chapter 4: Know Thyself Part II -Deciding How Many Children to Have and When To Have ThemChapter 7 Chapter 5: The Last Year of Graduate School: Heading for the Job Market and Choosing the Institution that is Right for YouChapter 8 Chapter 6: On the Tenure Track Part I - Scholarship and NetworkingChapter 9 Chapter 7: On the Tenure Track Part II - Teaching, Service, and Your FamilyChapter 10 Chapter 8: The Immediate Post-Tenure YearsChapter 11 Chapter 9: Coming up for Full ProfessorChapter 12 ConclusionChapter 13 Appendix 1: Different Types of InstitutionsChapter 14 Appendix 2: The Other Perspective: Words from our ChildrenChapter 15 Suggested Reading
Sprache | englisch |
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Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung |
Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
Schlagworte | American Studies • Faculty Resources • Higher Education/ Parenting • parenting resources • Professor Resources • teacher resources |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-0860-0 / 1442208600 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-0860-5 / 9781442208605 |
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