Academic mothers building online communities : it takes a village / Sarah Trocchio, Lisa K. Hanasono, Jessica Jorgenson Borchert, Rachael Dwyer, Jeanette Yih Harvie, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trocchio, Sarah, editor.

Hanasono, Lisa K., editor.

Borchert, Jessica Jorgenson, editor.

Dwyer, Rachael, editor.

Harvie, Jeanette Yih, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in higher education--Social conditions.

Women in higher education.

Working mothers--Social conditions.

Working mothers.

Online social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 347 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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, Mams, 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 in Academia, 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 Womans 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: ACADEMIC MOTHERS BUILDING ONLINE COMMUNITIES.

ISBN:

9783031266652

303126665X

OCLC:

1382343335

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.