Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826514782 ISBN 13: 9780826514783

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005

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 this title

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.

Review:

. . . it is academic administrators and colleagues who should read this book as an important step toward changing perceptions and attitudes. Collectively the essays provide many reminders about just how difficult life in the academy can be for anyone who deviates from the masculine "ideal worker" norm.
--The Journal of Higher Education

Bassett's collection effectively conveys the diverse range of experiences throughout the academy. . . . Among other things, the collection makes one reflect anew upon the centuries-long silence of academic fathers on the subject of parenthood, an effective and devastating separation of public and private life.
--Women's Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826514782
• ISBN 13: 9780826514783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Bassett Rachel Hile