Given that last post,

one thing led to another and here I present you with a pile o’ links to do with parenthood and the academy:

Articles/posts:

• Armenti, C. “May babies and posttenure babies: Maternal decisions of women professors.” The Review of Higher Education 27 (2004): 211-231. (Download PDF).
• Armenti, C. “Women faculty seeking tenure and parenthood: Lessons from previous generations.” Cambridge Journal of Education, 34 (2004): 65-83. (Download PDF).
• “Downwardly Mobile“: Marc Bousquet interviews a Columbia-educated woman who can’t get a job interview (Aug. 26/08).
• Burmester, Beth. “In the Kitchen with an Academic Feminist-Mother: A Feminist Narrative.”
• Gewin, Virginia. “Baby Blues: Are women being held back by an ‘innate difference’: their ability to give birth? With better academic policies, motherhood and scientific excellence would not seem mutually exclusive,” Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science 433 (Feb. 17/05): 780-781.
• Hamilton, Kendra. “Do babies matter when charting an academic career? The academy seems to think so,” Black Issues in Higher Education (March 28/02).
• Jaschik, Scott. “Does Academe Hinder Parenthood?” Inside Higher Ed. (May 23/08).
• Louis, Lucille. “Life as a Mother-Scientist.” Chronicle Careers (Nov. 30/06).
• Mason, Mary Ann,  and Marc Goulden. “Do babies matter?: The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women,” Academe 88.6 (Nov-Dec/02). (Download PDF).
• Mason, Mary Ann,  and Marc Goulden. “Do babies matter? (Part II): Closing the Baby Gap,” Academe (Nov-Dec/04). (Download PDF).
• Stockdell-Giesler, Anne, and Rebecca Ingalls. “Faculty Mothers: It’s time to rewrite the rhetoric of motherhood in higher education, and we can use AAUP recommendations to help.”
• Suleiman, Na’ema. “Balancing Act: Cats and Other Unmentionables,” Chronicle of Higher Education (June 12/08).
• Varner, Amy. “The Consequences and Costs of Delaying Attempted Childbirth for Women Faculty,” The Faculty & Families Project, Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, Penn State University
  (Sept. 5/00). (Download PDF).
• Wilson, Robin. “How Babies Alter Careers for Academics: Having children often bumps women off the tenure track, a new study shows,” Chronicle of Higher Education (Dec. 5/03).

Blogs:

• Dr. Mom, My Adventures as a Mommy-Scientist (and check out the links in the sidebar, with all the blogs)
• FemaleScienceProfessor
• Janus Professor, My Travels in a Two-Body Life
• Mama PhD, a website for Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life.
• Sciencewomen
• See Jane Compute

Print:

• Bassett, Rachel Hile, ed. Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career (Vanderbilt UP, 2005).
• Bracken, Susan J., Jeanie K. Allen, and Diane R. Dean, eds. The Balancing Act: Gendered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and Work Lives (Stylus Publishing, 2006).
• Curtis, John W., ed. The Challenge of Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work: New Directions for Higher Education, No.130 (Jossey-Bass, 2005).
• Evans, Elrena, and Caroline Grant, eds. Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers UP 2008).
• Monosson, Emily, ed. Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out (Cornell UP, 2008).
• Philipsen, Maike Ingrid. Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women: Success and Sacrifice (Jossey-Bass, 2008).
• Pillay, Venitha. Academic Mothers (Trentham Books, 2007).
• Schell, Eileen E. Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction (Boynton/Cook, 1997).
• Ward, Kelly (Kelly Anne), and Lisa Wolf-Wendel. “Academic Motherhood: Managing Complex Roles in Research Universities,” The Review of Higher Education 27.2 (Winter 2004): 233-257.

Websites:

• ARM: the Association for Research on Mothering (York U): ARM has a journal and hosts conferences. And founder Andrea O’Reilly is looking for women to interview for a three-year SSHRC-funded study on women and academe.
• College Mom Magazine
• The Faculty& Families Project, Penn State
• The Mapping Project: Exploring the Terrain of U.S. Colleges and Universities for Faculty and Families, Penn State