The parent track : timing, balance, and choice in academia

DeRoche, Christina, 1980- (editor.). Berger, Ellie D., 1973- (editor.). Careless, Erin J. Conversations with women. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1771122641
ISBN: 9781771122641
ISBN: 1771122412
ISBN: 9781771122412
ISBN: 1771122633
ISBN: 9781771122634
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages .)
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Computer data.
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:march.20 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.