Mama, PhD [electronic resource] : women write about motherhood and academic life / edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant.

Includes bibliographical references.

The conversation / Jamie Warner -- In medias res / Sonya Huber -- Scholar, negated / Jessica Smartt Gullion -- Student/body / Sheila Squillante -- On being Phyllis's daughter : thoughts on academic intimacy / Laura Levitt -- Engineering motherhood / Jennifer Eyre White -- The wire mother / Susan O'Doherty -- Fitting in / Elrena Evans -- Motherhood after tenure : confessions of a late bloomer / Aeron Haynie -- First day of school / Amy Hudock -- Boards and a passion : on theatre, academia, and the art of failure / Anjalee Deshpande Nadkarni -- Living (!) a life I never planned / Rosemarie Emanuele -- Coming to terms at full term / Natalie Kertes Weaver -- One mama's dispensable myths and indispensable machines / Angelica Duran -- That mommy thing / Alissa McElreath -- Failure to progress : what having a baby taught me about Aristotle, advanced degrees, developmental delays, and other natural disasters / Irena Auerbuch Smith -- Infinite calculations / Della Fenster -- I stand here teaching : Tillie Olsen and maternity in the classroom / Julia Lisella -- The facts, the stories / Leah Bradshaw -- I am not a head on a stick : on being a teacher and a doctor and a mommy / Elisabeth Rose Gruner -- Lip service / Jennifer Cognard-Black -- Body double / Leslie Leyland Fields -- The long and winding road / Jean Kazez -- The bags I carried / Caroline Grant -- Of the boys / Martha Ellis Crone -- Free to be-- mom and me : finding my complicated truth as an academic daughter / Megan Pincus Kajitani -- Nontraditional academics : at home with children and a PhD / Susan Bassow, Dana Campbell, Liz Stockwell -- A great place to have a baby / Rebecca Steinitz -- Recovering academic / Jennifer Margulis -- The orange kangaroo / Nicole Cooley and Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Ideal mama, ideal worker : negotiating guilt and shame in academe / Jean-Anne Sutherland -- In theory/in practice : on choosing children and the academy / Lisa Harper -- Motherhood is easy; graduate school is hard / Tedra Osell -- Momifesto : affirmations for the academic mother / Cynthia Kuhn ... [et al.] -- In dreams begin possibilities--or, anybody have time for a change? / Judith Sanders.

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