Papa, PhD : essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

Papa, PhD : essays on fatherhood by men in the academy /

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Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 240 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Fatherhood. Father and child. Father and child. Fatherhood. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123967

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Other authors / contributors:	Marotte, Mary Ruth. Reynolds, Paige. Savarese, Ralph James.
ISBN:	9780813550206 0813550203 0813548780 9780813548784 0813548799 9780813548791 1283864177 9781283864176
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English.
Summary:	A collection of personal essays from men who wrestle with what it means to be a father in academia today. Organized in three sections, the stories of the contributors depict not merely a balancing act of parenting, teaching, and writing, but also the revelatory collision and occasional fusion of competing identities. Essays in the first section, "Fathers in Theory, Fathers in Praxis," focus on challenges related to merging work and parenting. The authors contemplate to what degree we engage our children in the academy, while also allowing them to grow independently, recognizing the challenge of keeping the roles of parent and teacher distinct. The second section, "Family Made," explores fatherhood against the grain and includes narratives of single dads, fathers raising children with disabilities, biracial families, and other "non-traditional" parenting situations. "Forging New Fatherhoods," the third section, articulates the strategies created by men to "balance diapers and a doctorate" or to reconcile fatherhood with professional ambition. The contributors' reflections reveal how fatherhood is instrumental to their successes and failures in the workplace, and demonstrate that the relationship between fatherhood and academia is a rich and legitimate subject for study.
Other form:	Print version: Marotte, Mary Ruth. Papa, PhD : Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813548784
Standard no.:	ebc864868

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Summary:	It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. Parents endure the stress of making tenure with the demands of life with children. While women's careers are derailed more often than men's as a result of such competing pressures, fathers, too, experience conflicting feelings about work and home, making parenting ever more challenging.<br> <br> In Papa, PhD , Mary Ruth Marotte, Paige Martin Reynolds, and Ralph James Savarese bring together a group contributors from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. They are white, black, South Asian, Asian, and Arab. They are gay and straight, married and divorced. They are tenured and untenured, at research-one universities and at community colleges. Some write at the beginning of their careers, others at the end. But, perhaps most important they do not look back-they look forward to new parental and professional synergies as they reflect on what it means to be a father in the academy.<br> <br> The fathers writing in Papa, PhD seek to expand their children's horizons, giving them the gifts of better topic sentences and a cosmopolitan sensibility. They seriously consider the implications of gender theory and queer theory-even Marxist theory-and make relevant theoretical connections between their work and the less abstract, more pragmatic, world of fathering. What resonates is the astonishing range of forms that fatherhood can take as these dads challenge traditional norms by actively questioning the status quo.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xix, 240 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780813550206 0813550203 0813548780 9780813548784 0813548799 9780813548791 1283864177 9781283864176