The parent track : timing, balance, and choice in academia / Christina DeRoche and Ellie Berger, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeRoche, Christina, 1980- editor.

Berger, Ellie D., 1973- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--Family relationships.

College teachers.

Work and family.

Work-life balance.

Physical Description:

xvi, 278 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectives--gender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation--and at different phases of a parent's academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it reveals the shifting ideologies surrounding the challenges of negotiating work and family balance in this context. Earlier research on parenting has documented the ways in which women and men experience, and subsequently negotiate, their roles as parents in the context of the workplace and the home. Particular attention has been paid to the negotiation of familial and childcare responsibilities, the division of labour, the availability of family-friendly policies, social constructions of motherhood and fatherhood, power relations, and gender roles and inequality. Studies on the experience of parenthood within the context of academia, however, have lacked diversity and failed to provide qualitative accounts from scholars of all genders at varying points in their academic careers who have, or are planning to have, children. This book addresses that gap.

Contents:

Unanswered and lingering questions / Christina DeRoche

Work family balance? : a challenging yet rewarding journey through gendered academia / Ellie D. Berger

Conversations with women : mothers and academics / Erin Careless

Academia, my mother, and me : reflections on intergenerational emotional geographies of academic parenting / Sara L. Jackson

Patchwork academia / Sarah Milmine

Motherhood and graduate studies : the untold stories of summer residency / Melissa Corrente

I've been to me / Jennifer Barnett

Fatherhood and the PhD : time management, perfectionism, and the question of value / Geoff Salomons

Going in and coming out : understanding ourselves as mama scholars / Lisa J. Starr and Kathleen M. Bortolin

Longing to belong : parenting and self-realization within academia / Ilka Luyt

"Dad and Mom do not eant to get zeroes" : parenting in academia / Mildred Tsitsi Masimira

Of diapers and comprehensives : a feminist exploration of graduate-student-mothering in the academy / Anita Jack-Davies

He told me "babies sleep" : expectations and realities about maternity leave productivity / Tarah Brookfield

Legacy and vulnerability : queer parenting in the academy / Sarah R. Pickett

Surviving parenthood and academia : two professionals striving to maintain work-life balance / Rose Ricciardelli and Stephen Czarnuch

Parent-student, student-parent : a tale of two roles / Kevin Black

Navigating role conflict in pursuit of an academic career : a.k.a. "you will get used to it / Jane E. Barker

Engaging academia as the nest empties / Timothy Sibbald

Juggling fatherhood, child disability, and academia / John Beaton

Hopeful intrusions : moments as both a dad and a professor / David Long

A bridge too far? The elephant in the ivory tower : parenting and the tenure track / John Hoben

Baby step by baby step : that was the way to do it! / Michelann Parr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Careless, Erin J. Conversations with women.

Other Format:

Parent track.

ISBN:

9781771122412

1771122412

OCLC:

957390416