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Through this chapter, I explore motherhood and early career academic work using the framework of Schwab’s lines of flight. Reflecting on my own experiences of becoming mother concurrent with becoming academic, this chapter looks to the negotiation of motherhood and academia.
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Miles, R. (2014). Mum (Ph.D.). In: Lemon, N., Garvis, S. (eds) Being “In and Out”. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-830-5_8
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