Teacher, Scholar, Mother

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

Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and trans-disciplinary book features mother scholars who bring their theoretical and disciplinary lenses to bear on questions of identity, practice, policy, institutional memory, progress, and the gendered notion of parenting that still pervades the modern academy.

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 MothersTracy Rundstrom WilliamsChapter 3:Mama's Boy: Feminist Mothering, Masculinity, and White PrivilegeCatherine A.F. MacGillivrayChapter 4:Encountering Others: Reading, Writing, Teaching, ParentingErin Tremblay Ponnou-DelaffonChapter 5:A Qualitative Study of Academic Mothers' Sabbatical Experiences: Considering Disciplinary DifferencesSusan 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 BecomingSara M. ChildersChapter 9:Doing Research and Teaching on Masculinities and Violence: One Mother of Sons' PerspectiveM. 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 TellingElisabeth G. KrausChapter 14:S/m/otheringMarissa McClureChapter 15:A Tapestry of Sweet Mother(hood): African Scholar, Mother, and Performer?Ama Oforiwaa AduonumChapter 16:Dropped Stitches: Classrooms, Caregiving, and CancerMartha Kalnin DiedeChapter 17:The Other Female Complaint: Online Narratives of Assisted Reproductive Therapy as Sentimental LiteratureLayne CraigChapter 18:Mama's Boy Part II: Feminism, Masculinity, and Life in an Interracial FamilyCatherine A.F. MacGillivray