Teacher, Scholar, Mother

Anna M. Young is associate professor of communication at Pacific Lutheran University.

• Section One: Approaches to Motherhood, Feminism and Gendered WorkChapter 1: The Role of Theory in Understanding the Lived Experiences of Mothering in the AcademyAndrea N. HuntChapter 2:Crying over “Split Milk”: How Divisive Language on Infant Feeding Leads to Stress, Confusion and Anxiety for Mothers Tracy Rundstrom WilliamsChapter 3:Mama’s Boy: Feminist Mothering, Masculinity, and White PrivilegeCatherine A.F. MacGillivrayChapter 4:Encountering Others: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Parenting Erin Tremblay Ponnou-DelaffonChapter 5:A Qualitative Study of Academic Mothers’ Sabbatical Experiences: Considering Disciplinary Differences Susan V. IversonChristin SeherChapter 6:Motherhood: Reflection, Design, and Self-AuthorshipBrook SattlerJennifer TurnsCynthia J. AtmanChapter 7:Confessions of a Buzzkill: Critical Feminist Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent MediaDustin HarpSection Two: Identity and Performance in Academic MotherhoodChapter 8:More Mother than Others: Disorientations, Motherscholars, and Objects in Becoming Sara M. ChildersChapter 9:Doing Research and Teaching on Masculinities and Violence: One Mother of Sons’ Perspective M. Cristine Alcalde, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s StudiesChapter 10:Cultural Border Crossings between Science, Science Pedagogy & ParentingAllison Antink-MeyerChapter 11:“You Must be Superwoman!”: How Graduate Student Mothers Negotiate Conflicting RolesErin Graybill EllisJessica Smartt GullionChapter 12:“There’s a Monster Growing in our Heads”: Mad Men’s Betty Draper, Fan Reaction, and Twenty-First Century Anxiety about MotherhoodCaroline SmithCeleste HannaSection Three: Bringing it to Light: Giving Voice to Motherhood’s ChallengesChapter 13:Silence and the Stillbirth Narrative: Stories Worth Telling Elisabeth G. KrausChapter 14:S/m/othering Marissa McClureChapter 15:A Tapestry of Sweet Mother(hood): African Scholar, Mother, and Performer?Ama Oforiwaa AduonumChapter 16:Dropped Stitches: Classrooms, Caregiving, and Cancer Martha Kalnin DiedeChapter 17:The Other Female Complaint: Online Narratives of Assisted Reproductive Therapy as Sentimental Literature Layne CraigChapter 18:Mama’s Boy Part II: Feminism, Masculinity, and Life in an Interracial FamilyCatherine A.F. MacGillivray

Much of the literature in on being a mother in academe breaks down the various -- usually negative -- ways women’s careers are impacted by having children, and then suggests ways in which colleges and universities can better support academic moms. And if you’re looking for another book like that, Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy isn’t 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.