Academic mothers finding rhyme and reason

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12232256
AutoresVenitha Pillay (0000-0003-1463-5878, University of Pretoria, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen21
Número5
Páginas501-515
Fecha de publicación2008-12-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGender and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540250802467927
OpenAlexW2014970615
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas21

In this paper I argue that the ‘balancing two lives’ approach to motherhood and work has particular limitations for academic mothers. I interrogate the perceived oppositionalities in being mother, traditionally associated with nurturing, love and emotion, and being academic, traditionally associated with reason and logic. My purpose is to show that motherhood needs to be inscribed into intellectual work if the academic mother is to find a wholeness of self. A related point I make is that separating motherhood from intellectual work is tantamount to abandoning thinking and intellectual labour to be the preserve of a masculine terrain from which motherhood, emotion, love, nurturing is excluded

Developmental psychology · Inscribed figure · Linguistics · Point (geometry · Rhyme · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology