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Academic Mothers Building Online Communities

It Takes a Village

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Features the first collection of research on motherhood and academic careers in digital contexts

  • Centers diverse voices from graduate students, academics in alt-academic careers and non-tenure track faculty

  • Provides practical findings that can help academic mothers build online communities

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxviii
  2. It Takes a Village: Academic Mothers Building Online Communities

    • Rachael Dwyer, Sarah Trocchio, Jessica Jorgenson Borchert, Lisa K. Hanasono, Jeanette Yih Harvie
    Pages 1-14
  3. Identity and Marginalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. Barefoot Strangers: Multinational Digital Epistemologies of Academic Moms, Mamás, Mamy, Umahat

      • Stefani Boutelier, Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała, Alpha A. Martínez-Suárez, Hala Guta, Agata A. Lambrechts
      Pages 45-67
    3. Creating an Online Community of Support: Mothers of Children with Disabilities Working in the Academy

      • Stephanie L. Shepherd, Leigh T. Graham, Abigail Hornstein, Katie Jo LaRiviere, Kathleen M. Muldoon, Monica C. Schneider
      Pages 69-75
    4. #GradStudentMom Finds Community Online

      • Lori Arnold
      Pages 115-119
  4. Connection and Support

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
    2. Social Support Theory: Physical Isolation and Academia with Children

      • Diane Lally, Kathryn M. Tanaka, Laura A. Bailey Smith, Floriza F. Gennari
      Pages 209-227
  5. Pandemic Parenting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
    2. Drafting while Drifting: Developing a Digital Village of Support and Advocacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

      • Tanya Romero-González, Diane Sabenacio Nititham, Sara Cooper
      Pages 239-276

About this book

This volume focuses on the diverse ways in which mothers working within academia seek to find others with similar experiences to build virtual communities. Although the faculty and student populations of universities have diversified, mothers in academia are disproportionately overrepresented in precarious faculty and staff positions and continue to experience myriad institutional and interpersonal barriers, such as gender wage gaps that are exacerbated by stop-the-clock tenure policies, inadequate parental leave policies, expensive or scarce local childcare options, and social biases. The book gives space to the many ways women create and challenge their own versions of motherhood through a digital “village,” examining how academic mothers use virtual communities to seek and enact different kinds of support.

Keywords

  • #gradstudentmom
  • academic mother
  • Social Media
  • single moms
  • PhD study
  • academic career

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rider University, Lawrenceville, USA

    Sarah Trocchio

  • Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

    Lisa K. Hanasono

  • Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, USA

    Jessica Jorgenson Borchert

  • School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia

    Rachael Dwyer

  • D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

    Jeanette Yih Harvie

About the editors

Sarah Trocchio is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Rider University, USA. Trocchio's research focuses on the mechanisms through which structural inequity is reflected, reinforced, or mitigated in varied workplace contexts. She is a nationally board certified coach in the USA, and owns her own career coaching and strategy practice called the Square Peg Club (SPC). 


Lisa K. Hanasono is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication and an affiliated faculty of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Bowling Green State University, USA. She researches how people communicate social biases, shatter stigmas, and respond to discrimination.


Jessica Jorgenson Borchert is Associate Professor of English, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, and Director of Professional Writing at Pittsburg State University, USA. She has previously published on breastfeeding rhetoric and postpartum dress practices in academia.


Rachael Dwyer is Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy in the School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her scholarly work is underpinned by a social change agenda, engaging in arts-based research that allows for collaborative, applied work drawing on rich and longitudinal relationships with participants, students and the broader community.
 
Jeanette Yih Harvie is a Research Associate with the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, USA.  She has published extensively on how public policy and political institutions impact the citizenship development and political behavior of military veterans and underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Academic Mothers Building Online Communities

  • Book Subtitle: It Takes a Village

  • Editors: Sarah Trocchio, Lisa K. Hanasono, Jessica Jorgenson Borchert, Rachael Dwyer, Jeanette Yih Harvie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26665-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-26664-5Published: 09 June 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-26667-6Due: 23 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-26665-2Published: 08 June 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 347

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Education Economics, Education, general, Education, general

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