April 29, 2005

Tales of Academic Parenthood, Continued

By ROBIN WILSON

Another book on how to juggle motherhood and academic work will be published in June -- this one by Vanderbilt University Press. Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work With an Academic Career collects firsthand accounts of women trying to publish and parent without perishing.

In one essay, a woman recalls how, contrary to her doctor's advice, she decided to remain in graduate school after her young son was diagnosed with autism. "I am defying the maternal mystique that

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