Academic Motherhood in a Post Second Wave Context - Softcover

D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies at Boston University. She is the author of White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity: Purging Matrophopia and co-editor of Contemporary Maternity in the Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction which won the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender's 2011 Outstanding Book Award for a edited volume. Andrea O'Reilly is Professor of Women's Studies at York University and founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI). She is the author/editor of 18 books on motherhood, including The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out On Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It, also with Demeter Press. She is editor of the first Encylopedia on Motherhood

The contributions to the collection present diverse stories and perspectives from the personal to the theoretical and empirical. I finished reading feeling not only more informed but empowered....Several hundred thousand women are currently employed as post-secondary teachers across North America; all of their Chairs,Deans, and Provosts should read this book and all academic women should know about it. --Elissa Foster, Director of Education & Program Evaluation, Department of Family Medicine, Le - high Valley Health Network