Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career

ISBN 10: 0826514782 / ISBN 13: 9780826514783

Published by Vanderbilt University Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826514782
• ISBN 13: 9780826514783
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Featuring many personal accounts, the twenty-four essays in this collection explore the challenges and possibilities confronting those, especially women, who combine parenting and academic work. Written by a diverse group of educators who present a real-world variety of situations, the collection also includes ideas for change at the individual, interpersonal, policy, and system levels.

About the Author

Rachel Hile Bassett received her Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on early modern English literature, in particular the poetry of Edmund Spenser. She and her husband live in Lawrence, Kansas, with their two children.