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Academic Mothering : Fabulating Futures for Higher Education by Kelly W. Guyotte, Stephanie Anne Shelton, Shelly Melchior, and Carlson H. Coogler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Inspired by those who mothered before and through the COVID-19 pandemic, this is a book about, for, and with those who live different embodiments of academic mothering--mothers, othermothers, academic mothers, and mothering academics. In this book, mothering is defined broadly, encompassing those who are biologically or legally mothers with children; those who are "not-mother" but who nonetheless understand and practice mothering; those who do identify as mothers but not as women; and all those who take on mothering roles in academia and beyond. Through poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, image and text, the authors in this edited book creatively explore academic mothering through their unique lived experiences, illuminating three ideas that comprise the three sections of this book: mothering as practice, mothering in precarity, and mothering as relational. Through considering--and in many cases, writing about and through--their own mothering practices, this diverse collection of authors critique the systemic failures of academia in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, fabulating new possibilities that envision a future in which mothering is valued and supported in (and by) high

Who reads Academic Mothering : Fabulating Futures for Higher Education?

Author

Kelly W. Guyotte, Stephanie Anne Shelton, Shelly Melchior, and Carlson H. Coogler

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004547445

Category

nonfiction