Mama, PhD: women write about motherhood and academic life

pt. I. The conversation. 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

pt. II. The mommy thing. 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 mamá'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

pt. III. Recovering academic. 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

pt. IV. Momifesto. 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.