The family track : keeping your faculties while you mentor, nurture, teach, and serve / edited by Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998], ©1998.

xxix, 310 pages ; 24 cm

The maternal mind / Alicia Ostriker -- Nine-syllable riddle / Katherine Callen King -- Harvard in the sixties: (un)speakable memories / Ellen Cantarow -- Plus ça change ... ? / Regina Morantz-Sanchez -- Around 1971 / Linda Wagner-Martin -- Single parent maneuvers in academia / Susan O'Malley -- Today I couldn't get here from there: a Latina mother's journey / Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte -- Motherhood is not an entry-level job / Karen Brodkin -- Paul Lauter interview / Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George -- Carolyn Forché interview / Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George -- Out of the mouths of babes, or, a sophist's choice / Suzanne Diamond -- Not the feminism I want my daughter to know / Valerie Begley -- Mentoring, mothering, and mayhem: costs of the superwoman syndrome / Trudy Christine Palmer -- Lavender labors or activist mothering / Rebecca Mark -- When mother is a four-letter word / Claudia Limbert -- The discursive production of student-parents: theory, class, and coalition politics / Lori Shorr -- Beware the silence: the risks of a commuter marriage / Maura Doherty -- Maneuvering through the cultural borders of parenting: Egypt and the United States / pauline Kaldas --Reading around the kids / Michael Rechtenwald -- Vampires in the classroom / April Salzano and Thom Dworsky -- Invisible babies / Charlotte Holmes -- How I got married, had a kid, and lived to tell / Sharon Dale -- Recollections of a tenured mom / Flora González-Mandri -- Juggling on an uneven playing field / Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés -- Letter on silences / T. Anne Archer -- Adventures of a single father in academe / Alan Gross -- Sitting on the fence: balancing heart and mind / Ellen F. Higgins -- A weaning / Lucia Cordell Getsi -- Silver linings: forging links between mothering a child with autism and teaching/scholarship / Celest Martin -- Disabling facts, enabling conditions: motherhood and teaching in India and the United States / Darshan Perusek -- Care and career in an aging society / Emily K. Abel -- Eldercare and multicultural values / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina -- The nurture sandwich: between child care and eldercare / Diana Hume George -- Faculty wives: lesbian family values / Carolyn Leste Law -- Be fruitful but don't multiply: institutional denial of gay and lesbian families / Jeffrey J. Lockman -- The arrogant academy, activism, and the transracial family / Sondra Hale -- Mommy and me / Brian Rosenberg -- The fourth generation of women facing the question / Ursula Broschke Davis -- And now the fifth / Joyce-Natalie Davis Florida -- Silent parenting in the academy / Constance Coiner -- Family care in the profession / Sarah Webster Goodwin -- Of parents born: changing the family care system in academe / Naomi J. Miller -- Domestic partnership benefits at the University of Minnesota -- Teaching, research, service: the impact of adoption / Penny Schine Gold -- On learning not to love the Oedipus complex / David Leverenz -- Staying whole / David Chin -- Creating the family-friendly campus / Annette Kolodny.

Includes bibliographic references