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December 16, 2008 | Blog |  No comments

Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and the Academy

By Amy Mercer

Read the mommy track’d review of Mama PhD:edited by LM’s Senior Editor, Caroline Grant and Me and My House columnist Elrena Evans.

“Mama PhD offers a series of lively personal essays from women who share varied experiences of being both mothers and academics, from struggling to keep down morning sickness while lecturing to a room full of students, to writing a dissertation while caring for a child with special needs, to negotiating viable maternity and family leave policies. Honest, funny, frustrated, provocative, and, yes, in love with their work, these writers don’t claim that their experience in the academy is more difficult than any other working mother’s. In fact, their suggestions for making the academy more congenial and their argument that doing so will improve its racial and social diversity, make good models for every workplace.”

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